Feds crack down on instructors who teach applicants how to lie on government job polygraph tests
- Last Updated: 1:07 PM, August 19, 2013
- Posted: 12:28 PM, August 19, 2013
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Federal agents are investigating instructors who supposedly help applicants seeking US government jobs fib their way through lie-detector tests.
According to a McClatchy report, the criminal investigation is part of the Obama administration’s unprecedented crackdown on security violators and leakers.
The probe, which has not been publicly acknowledged, is aimed at keeping criminals from using techniques that could have them beat the polygraph test. Those techniques include controlled breathing, muscle tensing, tongue biting and mental arithmetic.
Federal authorities, McClatchy reported, have already arrested Doug Williams – a former polygraph tester with the Oklahoma City Police Department who wrote a book on the subject – and Chad Dixon, who was the inspiration for Williams’ book.
Dixon and Williams had reportedly agreed to meet with clients for a fee who they thought were connected to drug trafficking or were correction officers who had received sexual favors from an underage girl. But the potential polygraph students were really undercover agents.
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