Oops--The quote above was from the interview of August 6, not August 23. However, there is one interesting statement BH made on the 23rd that I'd take issue with:
QUOTE(XZone @ August 23, 2007)
Rob McConnell (host)—Bob, you’ve passed two lie detector tests. Apparently Gimlin has done a lie detector test as well, Kal, and have you been able to find any proof of this alleged test?
Kal Korff—I haven’t, .... If it’s out there I haven’t seen any proof of it; I wish somebody would produce it.
Bob Heironimus—I have proof of both of mine.
But he won't look anyone look at his test-scroll. (Or whatever the roll of paper that the polygraph produces is called.) That's odd, isn't it? It's normal, when a person claims to have passed a lie detector test, for him to be asked to allow the record of the test to be examined by other lie detector experts. And it's therefore suspicious when he won't.
This is particularly the case:1. When the test was administered under the testee's own auspices, which means (to those knowledgeable in the polygraph business), that the result carries less weight than an independently administered test.
(Note--Kal Korff has repeatedly and dramatically claimed, on XZone, that the test was administered by "the chief of police," which it wasn't. Jim McCormick, the examiner, was a sergeant, as I've pointed out here, and posted as a comment on Korff's XZone blog-thread. (it was deleted within ten days, probably by Xzone.)
Korff has usually added, "You don't lie to the chief of police," own mis-implying the test was administered under some sort of official auspices. Rather, it was more likely administered under informal and even, perhaps, friendly auspices. Dave Murphy has told me that BH was friendly with members of the police department--and this may have included the chief (I don't know). If the chief or some other PD member had asked McCormick to administer a test to a friend as a personal favor, that would surely count as a friendly set of circumstances, rather than the intimidating one that Kal implied.)
2. When the testee has repeatedly been presented (by Kal and Long) as someone who "has nothing to hide."
3. When the second-opinion examiner was recommended by the original examiner. (He was, in addition, the
only one recommended.) IOW, he's not some ax-grinding hired-gun cherry-picked to discredit the original results.)
4. When the testee agrees to allow his results to be examined and to inform his attorney (Woodard) to release them for that purpose (as BH promised me and my second-opinion examiner), but the attorney nevertheless fails to return the second examiner's calls. (This has the smell of a runaround--a situation where each party can plausibly deny covering anything up, blaming the failure to perform as promised on some sort of mixup between the two of them about what they were supposed to do.)
5. When the testee
makes a show of sharing his test results, as BH did with Henry May on August 6, while actually not sharing the test-scroll, but only some sort of brief "He-Passed" certificate from the examiner. It's an equivocation to refer to that as a "test result." It dodges the issue while deceiving (most of) the audience.
Say, I wonder if Woodard destroyed the test-scroll somewhere along the line.
PS: I think there's less than a 5% chance that the second examiner's opinion won't agree with the first's. But this dodginess would still be a mark against BH (or maybe just Woodard), even if that's the case.