Posted on 09/18/2018 5:05:22 AM PDT by ladyL
I feel compelled to get something off my chest this morning about a profession I hold in high regard. I am a retired polygraph examiner and administered several thousand polygraph examinations during my career. I also was a Director and instructor of a national Polygraph School. The fact that Dr. Ford took a polygraph test and was said to have passed means nothing to me. Can a polygraph test be beat? Yes...it sure can. Actually the polygraph can't be beat the polygraph examiner can. As in a critical medical diagnosis, a second opinion is necessary for professional efficacy so too a polygraph test should be administered by two separate examiners following proper protocol. This most likely did not occur with Dr. Ford. She, with her Psychological background easily could have applied the principles of fight or flight utilized in a polygraph exam to give a false reading on her exam. So, no I put no weight on Dr. Ford's polygraph test but I do hold to polygraph tests, administered properly are accurate.
Any of these women who make accusations that could ruin a man’s career and reputation should be *required* to testify under oath, in front of God and everybody, and subject to perjury penalties.
Has Dr. Ford agreed to testify at the committee hearing? I don’t believe I’ve read that that has been confirmed. If she does, it will be a complete circus.
Q: Where was the party located?
A: Don’t remember
Q: How did you get there?
A: Don’t remember
Q: What year was it?
A: Don’t remember
Good bye!
The description I have heard of the polygraph test is that she was asked if the statement transcribed by the tester was accurate, and she answered “yes”, and was found to be truthful in that answer.
That is one screwed-up process. It seems designed to help the person being tested evade the truth.
The proper way to conduct this test would have been to verify details individually, over a series of questions, often repeated, to break down the subjects ability to mask their response.
As it was, if I give the examiner a story, he transcribes my statements, and then asks if the transcription is accurate, I can truthfully answer “yes” to that question even if every word on the paper is a lie, as long as the examiner transcribed everything I said accurately.
Yes, I think there is a fair chance that this is all bogus.
Yet I am struck by how little the WH is using political capital in Kavanaugh’s defense.
IMO he is a Deep Bushie moderate. Who knows? He could have even been faking his decisions to date to pull one over a USSC confirmation hearing. Wouldn’t shock me.
Meanwhile the corrupt likes of all the Bushes, Condi, etc., pushed him more than anyone else.
Did Kennedy agree to step down only if he or a short list of Kennedy favorites were to be nominated?
Don McGahn was Trump’s WH attorney who reportedly stood up to Trump’s request to have Mueller fired last year, then pushed for the admin to over-cooperate, by far, with the massive number of documents, interviews, etc., that they have given to Mueller. McGahn also reportedly pushed hard for Kavanaugh. And it was recently agreed he was leaving the WH.
All told I think there may be something to the reports from American Intelligence Media from weeks ago that Trump was on to Kavanaugh and would opt to let him go down in the approval process.
http://time.com/5120742/don-mcgahn-robert-mueller-firing/
If you remember something incorrectly, it’d come out clean on a poly.
Thanks for that info.
We better brace ourselves because the truth is irrelevant the Never Trump Rino’s and the Rats have the cards now. The fact Ford set up a lie detector test to support her story tells all you need to know. Who does that? Someone has engineering a set up.
The same as hers. Imagination.
She claimed to have been wearing a bathing suit under her clothes but made no mention about the party being at a house with a swimming pool or hot tub. Details that would have been relevant.
Not just the perjurers. The people subordinate the perjury as well. This chick didn’t think this up on her own.
...the people suborning the perjury as well...
Could she have no memories of what occurred when she got drunk, and her mind has been filled with a false narrative to justify her actions? This is what the “me too” movement is doing to so many women.
Every criminal defense has a list of favorable polygraph contractors. You schedule several tests with a few examiners and then disclose the one with the best version of the results you were seeking. Criminal defense 101.
; )
The bathing suit actually sounds like the kind of thing one wouldn’t think to invent. Perhaps she was once groped at a party to which she’d gone after swimming.
Has anyone seen the results of this lie detector test? Does it really exist or just because Dems “say” it happened, then it’s true????
Why is everyone assuming it exists?
Thank you for the thread, and your experience. The thing that struck me yesterday was all of the clips of the Democrat politicians who all knew she was telling the truth. The Republicans were seemingly open-minded, while the Rats just KNEW.
The reason polygraph tests are not used in court for evidence is that sociopaths can pass them. Sociopaths have no conscience.
I don't think so. It reminds me of Ferris Bueller's excuse to get out of school. You use details that can be remembered but not quite enough to get sent to the doctor. Rough equivalent to licking your palms...
The suit is not a bathing suit but rather a chastity suit
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