Word: polygraph
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...name the analyst, but other officials confirm that she is Mary McCarthy, a CIA veteran who served on the National Security Council under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Government insiders say McCarthy, who did not return calls to her home, was dismissed after irregularities in a polygraph test led her to admit that she had made unauthorized disclosures to the media...
Others argue that the new laws are inefficient because they focus on monitoring anyone who has committed a sex crime rather than those who are most likely to strike again. Those critics say that therapy to break the cycle of behavior, supervision by a parole officer and even polygraph tests to assess whether an offender is lying about his or her activities and urges would be a more effective way to control them. A 2002 survey of nearly 9,500 sex offenders found that those who underwent therapy were 40% less likely to reoffend than those...
More than 2 million Americans last year underwent the frequently nerve-racking experience of taking a lie-detector test, or polygraph examination, a threefold increase in a decade. Fully 98% of the tests were ordered not by police but by private employers, who used them mainly to screen job applicants. Now Congress, many of whose members view the tests as a violation of civil rights, is moving to curtail them. Last week, by 236 to 173, the House voted to prevent the general use of the tests by U.S. businesses. Polygraphs, said Montana Democrat Patrick Williams, "in effect require testifying...
...best man holds the rings during the ceremony, offers the first toast to the newlyweds and makes sure the groom arrives on time for his polygraph test...
Jefferson devoted nearly a third of the main level to his private apartment. He rarely admitted visitors to this area, as it was perfectly tailored to his pursuits: a study where he maintained voluminous correspondence (even using a machine called a polygraph to copy letters as he wrote them); a collection of scientific instruments for studying the weather and the stars; a greenhouse for cultivating new plants; and, most important, space for his vast library