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 ...
In Season 8, Episode 10 of "The Simpsons" — an episode parodying the popular 1990s sci-fi thriller "The X-Files" — Homer Simpson is being questioned by two federal agents at a police station. "This is ...
In February of 1994, the FBI arrested Aldrich Ames, who had been a CIA employee for 31 years. Ames was arrested and charged with espionage. He was a Russian spy. For nine years, he had been passing ...
In Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession, and the Birth of the Lie Detector (Crooked Lane, Mar.), Wired reporter Katwala examines the origins of the polygraph. What inspired this book? My background ...
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 ...
Aired (September 14, 2025): Is it possible to tell if someone's lying with just a gadget? Join us as we explore the science behind lie detection and put it to the test in this exciting iBilib ...
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 ...
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 ...