Thursday March 8, 2007
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Guest host: Steve Roberts
A preview of the President's trip and a look at U.S. policy in the region.
Philip Brenner, Professor of International Relations and History; Director, U.S. Foreign Policy Field at American University's School of International Service
Paulo Sotero, Director, Brazil Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; former Washington correspondent for "O Estado de Sao Paulo"
Roger F. Noriega, visiting fellow, the American Enterprise Institute; former assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs (2003-05); former U.S. ambassador, Organization of American States (2001-03); former staff member of House and Senate committees on foreign/international relations
The polygraph machine seeks to separate the truth from lies. But the answers it gives are inadmissible in court, and those who know how can easily trick the machine. The origins of the lie detector and what its use reveals about both subject and administrator.
Ken Alder, Professor of History and Director of the Science in Human Culture Program at Northwestern University and author of "The Measure of All Things."