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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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Clapper Wrong Man for Nation’s Top Intel Post

May 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment

Yesterday, the world learned President Barack Obama had canned Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair. Soon after, news surfaced about James R. Clapper Jr., Defense Undersecretary for Intelligence, surfacing as the leading choice to replace Blair.  Sadly, my research tells me the nation is not going to be safer with Clapper as DNI, because his [...]

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Proposed Law Would Keep Best Tools Out of the Hands of Law Enforcement During War on Terror

February 11th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Like many Americans, you might deem the information below “yawnworthy.”  If, however, you’re interested in ensuring that our nation’s Departments of Defense and Homeland Security are equipped with the best possible tools to fight the War on Terror, you’ll be interested in what happens in states like Washington where a push is being waged to [...]

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No Need for Research, Interrogation Tool Exists

February 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment

More than 1,800 law enforcement agencies across the United States are using non-polygraph technology to interrogate suspected criminals with great success — above 95 percent accuracy, according to one university professor who studied more than 2,100 case files. More than 400 members of the U.S. military — including individuals in our nation’s most-elite special operations [...]

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Check Out My Latest Piece at Pajamas Media

January 14th, 2010 · 4 Comments

Hey folks, check out my latest piece, Small Group of Bureaucrats Hampering Use of Anti-Terror Technology, published today at Pajamas Media. Based on an interview Monday with Professor James Chapman, the world’s foremost authority on the use of Computer Voice Stress Analysis® as a tool that can be used by law enforcement, intelligence and military [...]

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CIA Deaths, Terrorism Could Have Been Prevented

January 11th, 2010 · 8 Comments

James Chapman was as distraught as any patriotic American about seven CIA operatives in Afghanistan being killed in an explosion set off by a double-agent Dec. 31. The 67-year-old Marine Corps veteran made it clear that he hated to see our nation’s security compromised the way it was Christmas Day when a 23-year-old Nigerian man, [...]

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