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...prime witness was himself a suspect, who was allowed to plead to a lesser charge for testifying against Macias. This man first told a grand jury that he had waited in a car while Macias committed the crime. But when confronted with evidence to the contrary -- including a failed polygraph test -- he subsequently admitted that he had gone into the victims' home and tied one of them up, though he still insisted that Macias had committed the murders. Armed with this testimony and shaky corroborative evidence, the state sought the death penalty...
...country and download intelligence files. Yet terminals inside Langley are routinely audited for suspicious activity, such as an unusual number of log-ins after hours or repeated failures to have a password accepted, usually symptomatic of a hacker testing out a host of computer-generated passwords. During their first polygraph, job applicants are now asked if they've ever tried hacking. The agency will also stage "red-team" exercises, during which computer experts try to hack the system from terminals in the building, probing for weaknesses...
...Mercland was listed as missing. There was, however, a Lieut. Colonel Paul W. Bannon who had been shot down over Laos in 1969. Pentagon intelligence analysts suspected Mercland was a garbled version of the word American, erroneously assumed to be the officer's last name. Phimmachack passed a polygraph test, and satellite photos analyzed in the Pentagon confirmed the cave's location...
...Senator's legislation giving the FBI earlier access to possible security leaks. The measure comes in response to the case of CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, in which the agency for two years neglected to inform the FBI of its suspicions after Ames gave deceptive answers in a 1991 polygraph exam. Ames, a 31-year CIA veteran, was sentenced last April to life in prison for pocketing up to $2 million from Moscow for his spying...
...personal finances of employees who have access to sensitive information. This demand is hardly original. Virtually every recent intelligence study conducted has pressed the point that the love of money -- not ideology -- drives modern-day espionage. Yet the CIA has made little effort to oversee employee assets. While polygraph tests now probe for signs of financial vulnerability, no effort is made to expose hidden wealth. So far, only top-level employees must disclose their financial , holdings. And the CIA has access to employees' income-tax returns and bank records only immediately upon hiring for a brief period and during each...