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Saddamâs loyalists thwart polygraph tests
EFLCaptured Saddam Hussein loyalists in Iraq are proving adept at beating lie-detector tests, frustrating attempts to find banned weapons and to learn what happened to Navy Capt. Michael Scott Speicher. U.S. officials and military officers say trained interrogators in Baghdad have caught Iraqi Baâath Party loyalists lying while hooked up to the machine, which showed they were not being deceptive. Officials attribute the lying to many factors. They say it may have become part of the culture of Saddamâs regime to lie routinely. In other cases, the Iraqi intelligence service and Special Security Organization trained operators how to "beat" the machine. And there is the issue that polygraphs, which measure changes in heartbeat, respiration and perspiration, are simply not accurate. And then there is the other factor that they are too PC to mention. Islam sez itâs OK to lie to infidels. In one incident, an Iraqi involved in a weapons program was shown two pictures. In one, officials cut his image out of a photo of workers at a weapons factory. He agreed that the cut-out image was of him. They then showed him the full photo, with his image restored. This time, he denied that he was in the photo. The polygraph did not catch him in this blatant lie. "Lies, all lies! Thatâs not me, in fact, Iâm not even here." "Polygraphs are being used in the interrogation process with mixed results," a military officer in Iraq said. "Many of the suspects being interrogated were formerly part of the Baâath Party intelligence apparatus, so they would reasonably understand how the device works." Asked to comment, a defense official at the Pentagon said, "We do not discuss such matters of intelligence as a matter of policy." I had read someplace that polygraphs were of little use on someone who was raised in a culture where lying was no big deal. Anyone have info on that? Posted by: Steve 2003-07-21 |
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