Filed under: Sex, Scandals, Scoops, Barack Obama, Drugs, Larry Sinclair, WhiteHouse.com, Ed Gelb, Gordon Barland
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Gordon Barland, a respected polygraph expert, has finished reviewing the Ed Gelb-produced polygraph test administered recently on Larry Sinclair, the Minnesota man who claims he used drugs and had a sexual encounter with Sen. Barack Obama in 1999.
Big Head DC has reviewed Barland’s report, which WhiteHouse.com originally commissioned yet failed to post, and Barland indicates there were technical flaws in procedure (including unnecessary interruptions), irregularities in the way the polygraph device was hooked up to Sinclair’s arm, and “uncommon” recording abnormalities involving Sinclair’s truthfulness about Obama’s alleged cocaine use.
While Barland’s review agrees with Gelb’s “deception” analysis of Sinclair’s sex claims, Barland’s findings regarding Sinclair’s alleged cocaine use with Obama were more murky. In fact, a computer algorithm called PolyScore found “no deception indicated” regarding Sinclair’s claim that Obama used drugs with him in the late 1990s. Ultimately, Barland said he agreed with Gelb’s analysis, despite the divergent PolyScore result.
Sinclair’s conclusion after reading the report is that he may be partially vindicated, and he says he believes the earlier “deception” result might be attributable to the poor testing conditions provided by WhiteHouse.com.
“I think the manner in which this exam was done is questionable,” Sinclair told Big Head DC upon reviewing the results on Tuesday afternoon. “I feel that knowing my medical history, Gelb intentionally prolonged the interview process that he claimed was necessary to form a list of questions, when in fact he already had the list of question printed and sitting on his desk. They knew I cannot sit, stand, walk, or lie down for extended periods of time, and I do believe this was intentional.”
Sinclair also said that “all of my treating doctors will confirm my normal blood pressure always runs on the low side as does my breathing.” Polygraph manuals note that people with medical issues like those of Sinclair can be difficult to test accurately via a lie detector.
