I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable.
Quotes about polygraph (16 Quotes)
The technology and the subjective and objective things that go into a polygraph aren't answered by him having a press conference, ... I am happy that he says he is going to give that to the Metropolitan Police and the FBI, and we'll examine that ... but again, that's not normal techniques.
And they asked me to take a polygraph as to the allegations and reports I'd made. I volunteered and I took the polygraph and passed it without a glitch.
Since brain activation is arguably less susceptible to being controlled by an individual, our research will hopefully eliminate the shortcomings of the conventional polygraph test and produce a new method of objective lie detection that can be used reliably in a courtroom or other setting.
It's a bit of a compromise, ... There is a cultural resistance to the polygraph that is different at the FBI than at the CIA. A polygraph is something that is given to new employees and suspected criminals, not to employees in good standing.
Lowell said there was no reason for Condit to take a polygraph test. But if police asked Condit to take one, I will discuss it with them, ... But I will discuss it with them, not with you.
It's not for them to decide whether it is relevant or not. It's for Judge Joseph Condon to decide. I believe there is a history of using a premise of a polygraph and supposedly ending up with a confession.
The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble.
The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.
I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me.
The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.
The polygraph is the traditional gold standard and has been around for some 30 or 40 years now. But even though it's the best we have today, it's not an accurate method of detecting deception, which is a great danger.
After reviewing the polygraph charts in private, the polygraph examiner told me that I had passed and that he believed I had nothing to do with the anthrax letters.
Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
Later, I went down to the Washington field office and an onsite polygraph was administered.
We have detected areas of the brain activated by deception and truth telling by using a method that is verifiable against the current gold standard method of lie detection -- the conventional polygraph.