Living in the future (and probably not liking it)

<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23926278>

   New anti-terror weapon: Hand-held lie detector
   U.S. troops in Afghanistan first to get new device; `red'
   means you're lying

   The Pentagon will issue hand-held lie detectors this month to
   U.S. Army soldiers in Afghanistan, pu****ng to the battlefront a
   century-old debate over the accuracy of the polygraph.

   The Defense Department says the ****table device isn't perfect,
   but is accurate enough to save American lives by screening
   local police officers, interpreters and allied forces for
   access to U.S. military bases, and by helping narrow the list
   of suspects after a roadside bombing.

(Not that anybody who was just near a roadside bombing is going to be
stressed out of their minds or anything...)

ObSF: Was this sort of thing 'predicted' in any stories, particularly
in the field of mil-sf?

By the way, over at:
<http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/us-troops-to-receive-handheld-lie-detectors>
we get the best Reader's Comment on the development:

   But they are making them illegal in wa****ngton DC.
   What did you say mister president? I can't hear you over the beeping.

-- 
William December Starr <wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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