Word: polygraphers
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...March 11 directive aimed at tightening counterespionage efforts and reducing the number of news leaks to the press. Under the original directive, current and former employees with security clearances must submit to government censors any writing they mean to publish. The requirement also forced officials to consent to polygraph tests if suspected of unauthorized news releases. Failure to comply with the mandates can result in demotion or reassignment. The new orders proposed last week extend random lie-detector tests to all officials with access to classified information, even if no evidence of security breaches exists...
Recalls a Government official ordered to submit to a polygraph during the Abscam investigation of congressional bribes and shown to be telling the truth: "It was the most humiliating experience of my entire Government career...
...measure pulse rate, blood pressure, breathing and perspiration as the subject answers a series of yes-or-no questions. Explains Sergeant Michael McFadden of the Washington police department: "There's always a fear attached when somebody lies, and that causes a physical reaction that can be read." Professional polygraphers say their tests are reliable in more than 90% of the cases if interpreted by a competent examiner. But University of Minnesota Professor David Lykken, author of A Tremor in the Blood, says the tests are accurate only two-thirds of the time and are far more likely...
...whereabouts at the time of the crime when police arrested him for murder six weeks later. The FBI had matched his palm print with one found in Mears' apartment. Nearly ten years later, McCray says he still does not know whether he is guilty. He has passed two polygraph tests, which prosecutors would not permit in evidence at his trial. An eyewitness who placed McCray in the woman's neighborhood at the time of the slaying later recanted, saying police had coached and coerced him. The physical evidences of rape could not be linked to McCray...
Brookline Municipal Court Judge Henry P. Crowley dismissed the case September 27 after Sealise passed a polygraph test...