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Florida Firm Cites BMW Posts in News Release

May 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Officials at the National Institute for Truth Verification issued the following news release today, four days after I published the second post in a two-part series about the U.S. military’s use of portable lie detectors in combat:
Two-Part Investigative Series: Military ‘Turf War’ Places Americans at Increased Risk
In a recently-published two-part investigative series, a former Air [...]

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If Not for Memo, Torture Might Not Be Issue (Part 2)

May 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment

By Bob McCarty
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Despite the overwhelming success of the Computer Voice Stress Analyzer® while it was used by the U.S. military from 2002-2008, a small group within the Department of Defense bureaucracy — the Defense [...]

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

May 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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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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.

One [...]

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John McCain Offered New Tactic for Final Debate

October 10th, 2008 · No Comments

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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