The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is using polygraph tests to figure out who could be leaking information to news outlets, with some agency officials contending the disclosed information has ...

The National Academy of Sciences conducted an analysis of the Department of Energy’s security screening policy and published the report “The Polygraph and Lie Detection” (NAS Press) in 2003. The ...

A Seattle scientist who has developed an electronic brain test that he says could improve our ability to force criminals to reveal themselves, identify potential terrorists and free those wrongly ...

The Drug Enforcement Administration has allowed dozens of job applicants to become special agents and perform other work despite failing a lie detector test during the hiring process, according to a ...

First of all, what is a lie detector? It’s also known as a polygraph test. In movies and TV shows, it is used to decide if a suspect is innocent or guilty. But it’s not quite that simple. Recommended ...

Customs and Border Protection spent millions of taxpayer dollars in recent years on polygraph exams for job applicants who admitted to disqualifying criminal acts or drug use on their applications or ...

'It's a Sad State For Criminal Trials': Criminal Defendant Who Agreed to Proffer Agreement and Polygraph Test Didn't Receive Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, Says State Appeals Court "It's a sad ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A new bill will be debated on Capitol Hill next year, which prevents police from requiring a possible sexual assault victim from being required to take a lie detector test.

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — A Minnehaha County circuit judge didn’t err when she refused to consider the results of a lie-detector test offered by one of the men who admitted they participated in the ...

Patel recently ordered a criminal investigation into a report about his alleged erratic behavior and alcohol abuse.