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Article: Study urges U.S. agencies not to use polygraph for employee screening.(Chicago Tribune)
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- October 8, 2002
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WASHINGTON _ The National Academy of Sciences declared Tuesday that polygraph examinations are dangerously unreliable and the federal government should cease depending on them to screen for security risks.
The academy's 18-month, federally-funded study found that the so-called lie detector not only incorrectly deems large numbers of people who are telling the truth to be liars, but may have allowed spies and others posing security risks into sensitive positions because they were able to pass polygraph tests.
This makes the devices themselves a security problem because so many agencies like the FBI and the Energy Department rely on them, the report said.