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Clinton, Simpson, and McVeigh
Source: The Washington Times
Published: Aug. 12, 1999
Author: Brendan Miniter
Bill Clinton's greatest strength is finally being put to good
use. The talent in question is of course the president's nimble
touch when it comes to dealing with the truth. Nationwide, police
officers are intently studying the president's facial
expressions, gestures and pauses in order to become better at
spotting a liar.
Retired Calumet City, Ill., Police Chief S.A. Rhoads, who has
been teaching "Subconscious Communication" police training
courses since 1978, says suspects routinely (if unwittingly)
provide "nonverbal" clues that can aid law-enforcement officers
trained to recognize them. Among the model liars he has used as
teaching tools are Susan Smith (who went on television to ask for
her kidnapped children back after drowning them in a pond),
Timothy McVeigh, O.J. Simpson - and now, the president of the
United States.
Officers in El Paso, Texas, Broomfield, Colo. (a suburb of
Denver) and even here in Washington, recently studied the first
fibber - and there are more to come. "He's been good material for
the class ever since he became a candidate," said Mr. Rhoads.
As part of his presentation, he shows the president's infamous "I
did not have sex with that woman" statement and portions of his
four-hour deposition, which Ken Starr forced him to give and led
directly to his impeachment. Mr. Rhoads has identified more than
120 gestures of "textbook deception" by the president in that
deposition. In the course students are asked to identify some of
them. Mr. Rhoads then discusses the clue that reveals the lie.
Bill Clinton, it turns out, can be classified as an intimidation
liar, among other things. After viewing the tape where Bill
Clinton denies having sex "with that woman," Mr. Rhoads explains
the president's pointed finger and obvious leaning toward the
camera at the end of his statement are meant to intimidate the
viewer into believing him. The viewer, however, shouldn't have
been fooled because, although Mr. Rhoads believes the statement
was rehearsed, it contained several of what he calls
"disassociation pronouns" - such as "that woman." Some liars use
such pronouns to form a subconscious disconnect between them and
the person or thing about which they are lying. Here Monica
Lewinsky was reduced to something abstract.
Mr. Clinton didn't have to resort to intimidation or
depersonalization to deny allegations of sexual misconduct. When
he did, it made Mr. Rhoads suspicious and, the world knows now,
rightly so. But when he first detailed his suspicions in his
courses, many were skeptical. "They said, 'Oh you are just
picking on him.' I won a lot of steak dinners off that one," Mr.
Rhoads said in an interview.
Thanks to DNA on a stained blue dress and Judge Susan Webber
Wright's recent $90,000 fine for lying under oath, the class may
sound like an exercise in the obvious, but as Mr. Rhoads
explains, officers find it extremely useful because it helps
explain their instinct or "gut feeling" that suggests something a
suspect says is amiss. Giving that gut feeling a behavioral basis
can be very useful in front of a jury.
How accurate can looking for a nervous twitch or a rubbing of the
eyes be? According to Mr. Rhoads if an officer takes his time and
studies his suspect it can be up to 98 percent effective and in
the worst of conditions "at least 90 percent" accurate.
Washington Police Chief Charles H. Ransey has sent 510 District
police officers through the program. Several District detectives
have already told Mr. Rhoads that the skills they learned have
been instrumental in getting to the truth in criminal
investigations.
Broomfield Detective Bart Dorscheid said he also found the class
to be very helpful, but it "was not shocking" that Mr. Rhoads
made an example out of the president. "In the police business we
have been watching [the president]. He never comes out with a
'yes' or 'no' answer to a 'yes' or 'no' question. That's a
problem. That's evidence of deception."
As rational people pointed out during impeachment, "weasel"
language is also a characteristic of a liar. When the president
said he "would" never ask someone to lie, he wasn't really
denying whether or not he "did" ask someone to lie. The decision
to answer a question that wasn't asked can be very revealing.
Other categories of liars - Mr. Rhoads counts 12 of them -
include the "appointment" liar - someone who puts a limit on the
interview to restrict the number of questions he may have to
answer - something Bill Clinton did when giving his depostion to
Ken Starr.
Mr. Rhoads says Bill Clinton's pattern of lies can be traced back
to 1992 when a reporter asked if he had ever smoked marijuana.
Instead of a straight "yes" or "no," Bill Clinton said he never
broke U.S. law. When asked later if he smoked it in England, he
said he didn't inhale and didn't like it. In effect, the
president was contradicting himself: If he didn't inhale, how
could he say he didn't like it.
Of course most Americans already realize Bill Clinton is a liar,
but this does place the president in a video lineup of
unflattering people. It is ironic that police officers are
finding better ways of getting to the truth by watching Bill
Clinton lie without flinching. What a legacy.
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