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...life by drug lords. In a separate controversy, his long feud with Washington over its handling of the MIA issue, Perot accused Richard Armitage, Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration, of a nefarious cover-up. In running his successful computer empire, Perot occasionally subjected employees to polygraph tests. Last week seven defectors from his volunteer network charged that they had been targets of improper credit investigations. This pattern is familiar to those who worked with Perot long before he grew politically ambitious. "He keeps so much in his head," says a former business associate of Perot...
Revell is no stranger to controversy. In 1981, after reportedly failing a polygraph test, he was censured for leaking confidential FBI data to an Oklahoma journalist. Yet he still managed to rise to the post of FBI associate deputy director for investigation. In the 1980s, Revell came under scrutiny after he received calls from Oliver North, who was seeking to sidetrack federal probes that threatened to reveal the Iran-contra mess. But no proof surfaced that Revell meddled in the cases. Then, in 1988, Revell acknowledged in a Senate hearing that the FBI had been misled by an undercover informer...
...told a lie. People, unfortunately, can fib without suffering physiognomic changes. It would be helpful, then, if there were some hidden manifestation of lying, invisible to most people but clear to psychics or visionaries. The closest that real life has managed to come to this fictional power is the polygraph machine, which has a few serious drawbacks. It can be stumped by accomplished actors or those delusional enough to believe their own statements, and even experts disagree on the machine's level of reliability. And lie detectors, of course, are impractical to haul out on nearly all the occasions -- including...
...midweek the Allen empire struck back. His lawyers pointed out, as Allen had, that child abuse is an issue often spuriously raised in custody cases and that the filmmaker had passed a polygraph test on the issue of molesting his kids. Farrow had recently adopted Tam, a blind Vietnamese girl, and Isaiah, a crack baby. "To bring all these children with various disabilities and other factors into the family is of great concern to him," said one of Allen's attorneys, Harvey Sladkus, painting his client as more concerned for the young children's welfare than Farrow...
...murder. McCloskey tracked down three witnesses who had testified against Chance and Powell under what they said was pressure by the L.A.P.D. County prosecutors who joined the investigation then discovered that police had not revealed the fact that a jailhouse informant who had provided damning testimony had failed two polygraph tests...