Word: polygraphed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...department has increased its counter-intelligence personnel, legalized polygraph testing for scientists and improved computer security to prevent leaks, he said...
...what was probably the final straw, he decided the entire laboratory staff should undergo polygraph tests to determine who was responsible for a minor injury experienced by one of the office workers. While the group was making real progress in developing the technology needed to produce silicon transistors, Shockley's management style proved an increasing burden...
...Scottish cardiologist James Mackenzie invents the polygraph machine, better known as the lie detector...
...August 1998 Bill Richardson took over Energy from Federico Pena. Soon after, Richardson demanded that the FBI polygraph Lee. He passed, but Richardson suspended his security clearance and moved Lee out of sensitive areas. The Secretary then approved a security crackdown urged by Ed Curran, a former FBI counterespionage specialist hired the previous February to shape up Energy's counterintelligence program. About a month and a half ago, Richardson ordered Energy to polygraph Lee again--and the scientist failed. On Saturday, March 6, the New York Times broke an extensive story on the scandal, and the FBI swept in. They...
...prosecutors' well-known demand to interview Lewinsky before any immunity deal is struck. Starr's team has spent months attempting to corroborate the stories she told Tripp; now they want to walk her through it all, judging her credibility. They may even want to hook her up to a polygraph machine--particularly if she asserts that Clinton and his friend Vernon Jordan never obstructed justice by asking her to lie about the relationship. Lewinsky's lawyers don't want to subject her to questioning unless she is first given immunity; Starr doesn't want to grant immunity unless she talks...