30 March 2001. Thanks to GM.
The National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Study to Review the Scientific Evidence on the Polygraph held a public meeting in Washington, DC 26-27 January 2001. The NAS is to be commended for making recordings of those public meetings available on it's website in RealPlayer format. Such transparency is a welcome departure from the obscurantist mindset that prevails in governmental polygraph policy and research. The recordings are to be found at:
http://www4.nas.edu/webcr.nsf/MeetingDisplay1/BCSS-I-00-01-A?OpenDocument
Among the public employees who spoke at this meeting are Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), National Nuclear Security Administration chief Gen. John A. Gordon, ret., Department of Defense Polygraph Institute research division chief Dr. Andrew Ryan, Department of Energy polygraph program chief David M. Renzelman, and Sandia National Laboratories senior scientist and outspoken polygraph critic Dr. Alan P. Zelicoff (who spoke this week with CBS Evening News about the refusal of some scientists at Sandia to submit to polygraphic interrogation).
In this public meeting, DOE polygraph program chief Renzelman referred with strong disapproval to AntiPolygraph.org and repeatedly griped about information on "the Internet" (which seems to be a veiled reference to AntiPolygraph.org). As Mr. Renzelman's criticism of AntiPolygraph.org was publicly made, I've posted a public response to AntiPolygraph.org's polygraph policy forum at:
http://www.antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?board=Policy&action=display&num=985950511
The vague attacks against polygraph opponents that were a recurring theme in Mr. Renzelman's presentation to the NAS review panel are typical fare from the polygraph community. AntiPolygraph.org hopes that when polygraph advocates (especially those whose paychecks come from the taxpayers) make such attacks, they will be willing substantiate them.
George W. Maschke