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Having spent a great deal of time during the past two years reporting on the use of portable lie detectors and related devices by the U.S. military, I found a recent story that aired on Austin television station KXAN about the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count software program very interesting.
Dr. James W. Pennebaker and others [...]
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By Bob McCarty
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The question of whether members of the U.S. military and intelligence communities should be allowed to use waterboarding and other forms of torture during interrogations might be largely irrelevant today [...]
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This week, I’ll be writing follow-up pieces on two interesting subjects, both of which hinge on discovering who is telling the truth in pressure-packed situations:
Later this morning, I’ll be interviewing Andrew Woods, a Huffington Post blogger and Harvard Law School graduate who is one of the attorneys for the Amazon Defense Coalition in its [...]
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Nearly two weeks have passed since I published a post (“Is Tech ‘Turf War’ Putting U.S. Troops at Risk“) about my attempts to learn about the effectiveness — or lack thereof — of the military’s use of the Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System. Today, I wonder if officials at U.S. Central Command will continue the [...]
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By Bob McCarty
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A controversy with life-and-death implications has been brewing for 12 months over the Army’s decision to deploy the Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System, a hand-held lie detector, to combat zones.
One [...]
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