Word: polygraphing
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...late 1995, scientist Joseph Bonuso unveiled Solomon, a powerful computer program that could try cases, infallibly, without the need for juries. It ran testimony through polygraph analysis; it crunched legal algorithms on a team of supercomputers. Media from the San Francisco Chronicle to CNN covered Solomon, which had just done what a much criticized jury of humans had not. It had found O.J. Simpson guilty of murdering Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman...
...that easy. The amount of paperwork alone is frightening. Submit to a polygraph. Say how many times you've smoked pot. Give the agency permission to talk to basically everyone who has ever known you, including your mother, your neighbors, your ex and possibly your pets. Let them test your hearing and urine. Read No. 8 under "Minimum Qualifications" on the application checklist: "I am willing and able to engage in strenuous and potentially dangerous duties to include, but not limited to, the use of firearms, participation in raids, arrests and/or the use of defensive tactics...
...L.A.P.D. board of inquiry is expected to address many of these issues in a report to be released this week, a blueprint for turning the department around. One of its main recommendations, Parks has said, will be tightened screening of applicants, including better background checks, improved psychological testing, polygraph exams and more management in the field...
...negligently exposing American military secrets, but not of espionage. But it seems nobody told the prosecutors, who spent the first day of Lee's bail hearing Tuesday painting him as public enemy number Wen. First Lee's former boss, Richard Krajcek, testified that Lee admitted to failing an FBI polygraph on which he said he never spied for China. Krajcek went on to describe documents Lee is known to have placed on an insecure computer mainframe as the "crown jewels" of American military secrets. Then a FBI agent said that Lee had a clandestine meeting with Chinese officials...
According to Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet, this is the Agency's "biggest recruiting drive since the end of the Cold War." Thus, it would serve the CIA well to review its practice of the polygraph (a 30-year CIA veteran expressed to me his dismay over its use) and find ways to efficiently conduct the security clearance process (a new recruit even had to postpone his wedding due to uncertain timeline...