WASHINGTON — Federal agents have launched a criminal investigation of instructors who claim they can teach job applicants how to pass lie detector tests as part of the Obama administration’s unprecedented crackdown on security violators and leakers.
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Interesting. Criminally going after people that offer dubious countermeasures against something not used in courts and considered highly unreliable by the National Academy of Science, and for countermeasures which the Feds themselves claim don't work, seems incredibly bizarre.
Like some psych tests, polygraphy works best when people don't know how it works and when someone completely innocent does learn how it "works" they become more likely to fail.
OTOH, apparently these people were approached by undercover agents claiming to be criminals (or maybe spies) offering money to learn to pass. How disgusing is that? I have no sympathy for those bums.
Nuts.
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/08/1...#storylink=cpy
Interesting. Criminally going after people that offer dubious countermeasures against something not used in courts and considered highly unreliable by the National Academy of Science, and for countermeasures which the Feds themselves claim don't work, seems incredibly bizarre.
Like some psych tests, polygraphy works best when people don't know how it works and when someone completely innocent does learn how it "works" they become more likely to fail.
OTOH, apparently these people were approached by undercover agents claiming to be criminals (or maybe spies) offering money to learn to pass. How disgusing is that? I have no sympathy for those bums.
Nuts.
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