Bob McCarty Writes

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
Copyright © 2009 Bob McCarty Writes.  All rights reserved.  To request reprint permission, send an e-mail to BobMcCartyWrites (at) gmail (dot) com.
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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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Behind in the polls, John McCain needs to adopt an unconventional campaign tactic I read about yesterday; he needs to publicly challenge Barack Obama to agree to be hooked up to a lie detector during the third and final presidential debate Wednesday evening at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y.
Yes, I know, the Democratic Party presidential [...]

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