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2003-07-21 Iraq

Saddamâs loyalists thwart polygraph tests

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Posted by Steve 2003-07-21 12:17:40 PM|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Milli and microvolt sensors should be traded in for kilovolt electrodes. Heh heh.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-7-21 12:35:43 PM|| 2003-7-21 12:35:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Psychopaths usually do quite well with lie detctors.

Posted by mojo 2003-7-21 1:58:39 PM|| 2003-7-21 1:58:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I thought it was a proven fact that sociopaths can beat a polygraph with ease. Why waste the time? We need mustachioes and truncheons...and maybe the executioner from Blazing Saddles ("Never fear, all are equal in my eye!").

Posted by Hodadenon 2003-7-21 2:01:52 PM|| 2003-7-21 2:01:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 If they believe the lie then itâs not a lie to them. Ergo they will pass the Poly test.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2003-7-21 2:24:48 PM|| 2003-7-21 2:24:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Polygraphs measure the nervous system response to lying. They don't work on pathological liars or anyone else who lies as SOP.
I suppose a way to detect Ba'athists would be to put them in a position to lie and if there's no response, they're busted.

Posted by Dishman 2003-7-21 3:06:37 PM|| 2003-7-21 3:06:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Now's the time to bring in the ROK. I heard stories from guys in Vietnam about how they skillfully ~~beat~~ extracted information from the VC. I'm sure they'll beg for a free trip to GITMO in less than 5 minutes flat.

Posted by Paul 2003-7-21 3:06:44 PM|| 2003-7-21 3:06:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 There was a fairly acclaimed exchange between Ehud Barak/Benny Morris and Rob Malley/Hussein Agha in the New York Review of Books about the failure of Camp David. In the course of scoring Arafat for his outsized mendacity, Barak mentioned that polygraphs are ineffectual in Arab society because, not to put too fine a point on it, untruth is integral to Arab sociey. Barak was obviously mau-maued by his interlocutors, and I thought the charge was impolitic, but in light of this, I'll rethink.

Posted by af 2003-7-21 3:27:25 PM|| 2003-7-21 3:27:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 af: Wow, this from the man who "sold out Israel"? I know we all don't like how he performed when Bill Clinton forced Camp David on him, but when we also consider his record prior to that ... Hero of Eretz Yisrael, anyone? (He has already recanted his premiership's dovishness.)

Posted by Lu Baihu 2003-7-21 4:55:20 PM|| 2003-7-21 4:55:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Need information? Give the prisoners to the Mossad.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-7-21 8:56:14 PM|| 2003-7-21 8:56:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 They're Arabs for chrissakes. Lying is as easy as farting to them.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-7-21 11:08:07 PM|| 2003-7-21 11:08:07 PM|| Front Page Top

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