Word: polygraph
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...keep her quiet. Starr was now refusing to do a deal before talking to her face to face: "There is no substitute," he said, "for looking a witness in the eye, asking detailed questions, matching the answers against verifiable facts and, if appropriate, giving a polygraph test...
...Lewinsky herself, now California bound? It remains to be seen if Starr will allow her to ?tell her story in a cathartic way,? as Ginsburg asked, in exchange for immunity. If so, he says, she will submit to a polygraph lie test. If not, Starr will find it hard to kick-start public interest in his $30 million investigation. Meanwhile, one thing is certainly over -- Ginsburg, taking the advice of the American Bar Association, has promised not to appear on any more talk shows...
...mystery may well remain unsolved. Before jury selection began last Monday, Judge Barbara Jones ruled that the question of Cosby's paternity was legally irrelevant and shot down a defense request that Cosby undergo a paternity test. The defense would also like to present the results of a polygraph test, taken and passed by Jackson on July 6, in which she answered yes to the questions, "Is Bill Cosby your father?" and "Is your father Bill Cosby?" But polygraph results are inadmissible in federal court...
...during that first routine polygraph, something wasn't quite right. In Nicholson's replies to some important questions, a sophisticated new computer program spotted the shadows of a lie. When the test was repeated four days later, the signs of a false answer showed up again. So on Dec. 4 Nicholson was sitting before the machine again. And this time, just before the most sensitive questions, he appeared to be taking long, deep breaths. The examiner, who knew that trick, told him to stop, then proceeded to ask the crucial question. "Since 1990, have you had contact with a foreign...
...officer's file as "anomalies." Those can cluster into an incriminating "matrix" that might lead to a full investigation. "At any given time we have literally dozens and dozens of cases at every agency that raise questions," says FBI Director Louis Freeh. "Sometimes it's just a polygraph, and sometimes someone has plunked down $100,000 for a boat...