The Truth About the Polygraph, According To the NSA

An anonymous reader writes "The NSA (the secretive intelligence agency that brought you wholesale warrantless wiretapping) has produced a public relations video about its polygraph screening program titled 'The Truth About the Polygraph.' But is the NSA telling the truth? AntiPolygraph.org provides a critique (video)."

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If I ever had to take one..

[headkase]

If I ever had to take a polygraph test I would do so under one condition: I get to add one question to the test at the beginning. The question would be: "Can this machine tell if I am lying?"

Re:If I ever had to take one..

[Kitkoan]

subjecting the person under assessment to unfamiliar, semi-stressful conditions while asking probing questions..

So its like being abducted by aliens but with less anal probing and more question probing...

Re:If I ever had to take one..

[Foobar of Borg]

So its like being abducted by aliens but with less anal probing and more question probing...

You've obviously never been in the custody of the NSA before.

Besides, they got all their interrogation and research tactics from the Grays, anyway. I know this since the voices in my head has telled me so.

Re:Complete Bullshit

[kjart]

I posted about that earlier in response to this when it had no comments, but my comment has gone walkies..

Based on the test results, you're lying.

Re:Polygraph

[Anonymous Coward]

RCMP?

Royal Canadian Muppet Police?

Re:Complete Bullshit

[nih]

yea me t

Re:Complete Bullshit

[DiegoBravo]

Non ACID-compliant databases are the current norm. So, be quiet!

We are supposed to believe

[bagboy]

The "Anti-Polygraph" folks are telling the truth about the Polygraph truth? Can we get them to take a poly?

Re:Complete Bullshit

[Foobar of Borg]

Well, as they say: "you don't beat the polygraph - you beat the polygraph examiner.

But, in Soviet Russia, polygraph examiner beats YOU!

Re:Polygraph

[tsm_sf]

Thanks, now I have the hallelujah chorus stuck in my head.

Re:Polygraph

[Drishmung]

Yesterday, upon the stair
I saw a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I think he's from the NSA.

Re:Polygraph

[mogness]

...though police do use it during their investigations.

They also use it on Maury to find out if your baby daddy is cheating on you.

Re:Polygraph

[ClosedSource]

I've heard that story too, but the fact is that the photocopier lie detector has as much scientific evidence to support it as a Polygraph does.

Re:a placebo to make you believe your lies are see

[noidentity]

So [a polygraphi] is just like a Scientology body thetan test machine?

Yeah, but without the volcanoes. Big difference.

Re:a placebo to make you believe your lies are see

[hey!]

Reminds me of the early days of Scientology. I was attending MIT, and there used to be recruiters who'd harass you when you went through Central Square, asking, "Do you want to take a free personality test?"

A friend of mine came up with the perfect response. He'd say, "Did you pass?" Without exception, the recruiters would respond (with a straight face), "Oh, no, it's not *that* kind of a test."

It was freaky, like they'd lost their capacity to recognize irony along with their body thetans.

Re:I think I saw one of the video participants

[Alpha830RulZ]

Oh, please, for the love of god, mod parent up!