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...show tales told by another "other woman" (a flight attendant with fire-engine red hair) to the claims of a father who said his daughter's fear of her former lover had driven her into hiding. The Condit legal team fought back, volunteering DNA samples, allowing searches, proffering a polygraph test. But the recriminations have not stopped, not from the cops, not from the press and certainly not from the Levys...
...does the polygraph test work...
...first to a nearby house and then to the restaurant. However, while Restivo and his employees at Vitello's remember seeing Blake rush in for help, they do not recall his doubling back for the gun. During a five-hour interrogation the night of the crime, Blake declined a polygraph test, contending he was too distraught. Marcia Clark, who prosecuted Simpson and is now host of the syndicated courtroom show Power of Attorney, says that only celebrity is protecting Blake from arrest. Says Clark: "When I'm going to dinner, I tend to leave my AK-47 at home...
Students were also treated to a polygraph demonstration put on by Dennis J. Peloquin, a member of the Association of Massachusetts Polygraphists. After administering a sample test to one of the 40 eager volunteers, Peloquin answered questions about how easy it is to deceive the polygraph machine. When asked, however, whether a lie detector test is always conclusive, his positive response was met with dubious chorus of “yeah, but my mom’s a lawyer,” “my mom’s a lawyer too...” and he quickly concluded...
...take so long to catch Hanssen? Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Richard Shelby wants to know, "Why didn't someone finger him in some way?" Why does the FBI have less stringent standards for checking up on its people than other agencies have? The CIA has long employed routine polygraph tests to "flutter" agents every five years to search out misbehavior. Those tests are controversial, and Freeh has resisted using them, despite pressure from his own National Security Division managers to do so ever since the 1994 debacle. There must be "a happy medium," says former CIA chief Jim Woolsey, between...