wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(William December Starr) writes:
> <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?
Hmmm. They had "veridicators" in Piper's Terran Federation stories (and
IIRC
did use them in military settings on captured prisoners in _Space
Viking_),
but they weren't handheld, but more sort of a giant-chair thingy, so of
limited ****tability.
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