Attorney Calls for Formal Investigation of DoD Contract

In a post almost seven months ago, I reported on a claim that the Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System, a hand-held portable lie detector system made by Lafayette Instrument Company, was never tested for countermeasures before it was deployed to troops in...

If Not for Memo, Torture Might Not Be An Issue (Updated)

The question of whether members of the U.S. military and intelligence communities should be allowed to use waterboarding and other forms of torture during interrogations might be largely irrelevant today if not for...

Is Tech 'Turf War' Putting U.S. Troops at Risk?

By Bob McCarty "Copyright © 2009 Bob McCarty Writes. All rights reserved. To request reprint permission, send an e-mail to BobMcCartyWrites (at) gmail (dot) com. " A controversy with life-and-death implications has been brewing for 12 months over the Army's decision to...

Army’s Lie Detector Identified for Peacetime Use

The inability of presidential candidates — namely Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton — to tell the truth has received a lot of attention in both traditional and new media during recent months. Today, however, it appears a solution is available that could...

Don't Even Think About Lying

Don't Even Think About Lying fMRI is poised to transform the security industry, the judicial system, and our fundamental notions of privacy. I'm in a lab at Columbia University, where scientists are using the technology to analyze the cognitive differences between truth and...

closeSign in to NowPublic

is reporting from