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Take a deep breath. That's supposed to be one way to undermine a lie detector. Inhale deeply before any questions that make you nervous. Applied breathing during polygraph tests is an old trick Russian agents were taught, a small deception in a business that knows all the big ones...
...exoneration. The FBI appears ready to drop Jewell as a suspect after conducting a six-hour interrogation Sunday. The agency has stopped tailing Jewell and has returned the property taken from his apartment. Although the FBI is not commenting, the bureau did not ask Jewell to take another polygraph test, and returned his gun collection, not something usually done for a major suspect. But simply dropping him from the suspect list is not enough for Jewell and his lawyer, who are looking for a formal, public admission that he is no longer a suspect in the bombing. Currently before...
...where Jewell showed officials the bomb to the pay phone from which a warning call was placed a minute and a half later. The brisk walk, presumably faster than the pace Jewell could have sustained through Olympic crowds, took four minutes. Then last week the defense introduced former FBI polygraph expert Richard D. Rackleff, who said he had tested Jewell and judged him "totally innocent." (Jewell refused an FBI polygraph.) Finally the lawyers hit the interview shows, demanding that since the government wasn't accusing Jewell, it should clear him and apologize. Their week climaxed on Nightline's Viewpoint special...
...signal of respect, TIME's Douglas Waller says agencies are no longer "hung up" on the Cold War mentality that blackballed homosexuals for fear they would be blackmailed. "The CIA no longer screens for homosexuals," Waller says. "About five years ago, other agencies had a question on their polygraph tests about whether the person ever had homosexual tendecies, but people kept on tripping on the polygraph because of the way it was phrased...
...office, reportedly searching for a suicide note. They say they removed nothing. But Secret Service guard Henry O'Neill has told Senate investigators that he saw Ms. Williams leaving Foster's suite carrying "files" or "folders on top of each other." ( Williams, who denies this, has passed two polygraph tests.) Says Ratan: "The Republicans' big objective this week is to show that the Clintons were involved in some way with getting the files out of the office. But it's two years later: memories will be hazy, and there may be no way to say concretely what really happened...