You’ve probably seen this device before. This is a “polygraph” -- which is more popularly known as a lie detector test. But just how often it can catch you in a lie is shrouded in controversy.

CUI YANPING, 38, is an expert in polygraphs, commonly called lie detectors. She has worked in Beijing Public Security Bureau's criminal investigation department since graduating from Capital Medical ...

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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s intelligence and law enforcement arms are investigating what it says are leaks of national security information. Defense Department personnel could face polygraphs in the ...

The military may have ways -- gruesome ways -- of making people talk, as the Abu Ghraib prison scandal has shown. But it still doesn't have a reliable method for figuring out whether those people are ...

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If conventional lie detector machines, polygraphs, have been endlessly debunked and shown not to provide admissible nor even valid evidence, then the 21st Century tool of choice for reading the minds ...

The White House pulled the plug on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of polygraph tests to root out leakers, according to a report. Patrick Weaver, a current adviser to Hegseth, alerted ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s intelligence and law enforcement arms are investigating what it says are leaks of national security information. Defense Department personnel could face polygraphs in ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – There were several rows of uniformed Pennsylvania State Police personnel at the House Appropriations Committee hearing Wednesday morning. Lawmakers worry there aren’t enough ...