Word: polygrapher
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...Angola. Although Pillsbury denies being the source of the leak, an Administration official familiar with the case says Pillsbury failed three lie-detector tests given by the Defense Investigative Service. "The only thing Pillsbury came out clean about was his name," the official said. Pillsbury says a later FBI polygraph cleared him. But authoritative Administration sources flatly contradict his claim...
...hope and pray we don't reach the stage in which we have to have recourse to a polygraph test," the Jerusalem Post quoted him as saying...
...Massachusetts public defenders claim the polygraph has a 90 percent accuracy rate, according to a recent article in The Boston Globe. In addition, the FBI and CIA regularly use polygraphs...
David C. Raskin, a psychologist at the University of Utah, said he has conducted several studies showing that, when properly administered, polygraph tests are accurate enough to be a helpful piece of evidence in the court system...
...critics of the polygraph complain that beating a lie-detector test is too easy, especially when defense lawyers coach their clients on how to lie without detection...