Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recent polygraph test taken in Orange County, Calif., has brought the validity of polygraphs — also called “lie detector tests” ...

Polygraph test results are also generally inadmissible in federal courts and in most state courts because of doubts about their reliability. Statements or admissions made by test subjects during a ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has found itself embroiled in a rather odd situation involving polygraph tests. In April, it confirmed to NPR that it was using these tests to catch personnel ...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is using polygraph tests to figure out who could be leaking information to news outlets, with some agency officials contending the disclosed information has ...

The Department of Homeland Security has begun performing polygraph tests on employees to determine who might be leaking information to the media about immigration operations, according to four sources ...

The department accused seven staffers last July of “misleading” the agency’s former acting director into taking a polygraph.

Science says you might as well flip a coin.