Yesterday, I published a story, Special Forces Units Ignore Memo, Save Lives, highlighting the fact that members of the Army’s elite Special Forces community chose to ignore a 2007 Department of Defense memo which designated the polygraph and its hand-held cousin, the Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System, as the “only approved credibility assessment technologies” in [...]
War Stories Prove Voice Stress Technology Works (Update)
December 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment
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Special Forces Units Ignore Memo, Save Lives (Update)
December 7th, 2010 · 11 Comments
By signing a memo Oct. 29, 2007, James R. Clapper Jr. exposed U.S. military personnel to greater-than-necessary danger as they served their country in Afghanistan, Iraq and other hot spots around the world. Then an Under Secretary of Defense and now our nation’s Director of National Intelligence, Clapper designated the polygraph and its hand-held cousin, [...]
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Passenger-Friendly Screening Technology Ready (Update)
December 1st, 2010 · 36 Comments
Full-body scans, pat-downs and other procedures wouldn’t be necessary at the nation’s airports if the federal government, including the Transportation Security Administration, would only turn to a safer, touch-free, passenger-friendly technology with nearly four decades of success behind it. Because of its timeliness in relation to current events, I share a slightly-modified version (below the [...]
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People Judge You By the Words You Use
February 22nd, 2010 · No Comments
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 [...]
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If Not for Memo, Torture Might Not Be An Issue (Updated)
May 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments
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. 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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BMW Following Two Big Stories this Week (Updated)
April 27th, 2009 · No Comments
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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Will Military Continue Stonewalling on Lie Detector? (Updated)
April 20th, 2009 · No Comments
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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