In article <x78wzlr8pv.fsf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Richard Todd <rmtodd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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.
If I were an Iraqi being questioned by American, I might move the lie
detector off the scale, if not lose excrement control.
--
What is done in the heat of battle is (normatively) judged
by different standards than what is leisurely planned in
comfortable conference rooms.
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