The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has found itself embroiled in a rather odd situation involving polygraph tests. In April, it confirmed to NPR that it was using these tests to catch personnel ...
It used to be that the most feared instrument in the arsenal of a police investigator was the polygraph, or lie detector machine. Now the most feared thing might be a simple microphone and a laptop ...
Leonarde and Katherine Keeler pose with the Keeler Polygraph machine, 1935. Courtesy Everett Collection. This article is the first in a series called A Thousand Words, where we feature an interesting ...
Introduction: Plotting the hyperbola of deception -- "A thieves' quarter, a devil's den": the birth of criminal man -- "A vast plain under a flaming sky": the ...