Can you handle the truth? Regardless, it’s Tommy Platt’s job to find it out. Platt, an investigator with the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office, is also the agency’s polygraph examiner. Also known as a ...

The truth about lie detectors is that we all really want them to work. It would be much easier if, when police were faced with two contradictory versions of a single event, there was a machine that ...

A Dayton police reform group wants the polygraph test administered to police candidates to be used specifically to try to winnow out racists and white supremacists, as well as authoritarians. The ...

The polygraph, known more commonly as the “lie detector,” has a long and controversial history as a forensic tool, but it has also been used in a variety of other contexts, including employment ...

Karl Sander’s disputed polygraph test has been declared invalid after serious examiner errors emerged at the Madlanga Commission, raising questions about how lie detector tests work.

U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar is pushing to give U.S. Customs and Border Protection more discretion in its polygraph screening process for Border Patrol hires. The amendment, added to a major Homeland ...

Nearly half of new US Customs and Border Protection recruits are failing mandatory polygraph tests, causing a crisis in the agency which is struggling to replace thousands of agents who are scheduled ...

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