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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 others [...]

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If Not for Memo, Torture Might Not Be An Issue (Updated)

May 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments

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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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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Is Tech ‘Turf War’ Putting U.S. Troops at Risk? (Second Update)

April 9th, 2009 · 3 Comments

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.

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