Janine Driver - You Cant Lie to Me

This book is dedicated to my refreshingly honest six-year-old son, Angus, who reminds me every day of the secrets to living a fulfilled life: love, laughter, cheese sticks, and LEGO Star Wars. I love you babe.

FROM THE DESK OF JAMES J. NEWBERRY

Senior Special Agent, ATF (Retired)

Major, U.S. Army ReserveMilitary Intelligence (Retired)
President and Co-Founder of the Institute of Analytic
Interviewing, Inc.

Certified Truth Wizard

S he has done it again. Janine Drivers new book is powerful.

The techniques and tricks within her easy, step-by-step plan have the potential to strengthen your already strong, innate ability to spot liarswhich Janine calls your BS Barometerto create trustworthy relationships in all aspects of your personal and professional lives. And not surprisingly, when your world is filled with people who are honest and trustworthy, other trustworthy and honest people will feel compelled to connect with you, tooto make a purchase, to visit your blog, to pick you up at the airport (on time), and to treat your children and aging parents like family, protecting them as if they were their own. These true friends will be the ones who leap into action immediately and reach out a helping hand when you are drowning in stress, anxiety, and sorrow. Janines unique book, You Cant Lie to Me, also inspires us to take action fastwhich is exactly what we both did when I first met Janine nearly ten years ago.

In late 2003, early 2004, Janine tracked me down after spending more than ten years learning kinesics and analytic interviewing techniques from the manuals Id helped put together as a senior special agent in the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives). Shed seen my name in the manualsmy former students had collected anecdotes and secret tips I shared in class and edited them into the student guides, calling them out as J.J. Newberry Moments. After reading these little teaching nuggets for more than a decade, Janine decided she wanted to meet me. True to Janine form, once she made that decision, she instantly dug in and did her research. After she heard a tape of a radio interview that Id done, she was determined to accomplish her goal: to track me down.

The phone rang in my remote cabin one afternoon in late December 2003. The answering machine picked up. Hi, Mr. Newberry! Im Janine Driver. Im an industry operations investigator and a training program manager in ATF headquarters and Im running the interviewing program up here. Ive been seeing these J.J. Newberry Moments of yours in my textbooks for over a decade, and I want to meet the source. I want to talk to you about what I need to do to become the next J.J. Newberry. Id like you to be my mentor.

I spent the next two weeks investigating and calling random people I still had contact with at ATF. Who is Janine Driver? Whats her legacy at ATF? Who was this obviously passionate investigator whod sought me out specifically? I called her current bosses bosses, her former bosses bosses. I heard tales of her key work as a public information officer at New York Citys World Trade Center and her powerful contributions on the award-winning explosives team out in Hartford, Connecticut, where she helped uncover explosives companies that were illegally manufacturing contraband M80s and illegally importing highly volatile explosives. I learned how Janine and an ATF special agent out of Boston conducted a complicated firearms investigation that resulted in the seizure of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of illegally imported semiautomatic weapons.

At every turn, I heard things like a natural and can quickly read people accurately about her detecting deception abilities. I was glad Id done my homeworkJanine Driver was sounding like the real deal.

Two weeks after Janines surprising message, I was headed to Washington, D.C., to train U.S. Customs officers in analytic interviewing and detecting deception. U.S. Customs officers enforce the laws of the United States of America for every person or object that enters or leaves the States. Their interviews can result in the prevention of undocumented immigrants or other people from entering the country unlawfully and may result in the detection and confiscation of contraband guns, drugs, and fraudulent documents. Since Janine worked in ATFs bureau headquarters in D.C. and my background research on her left me intrigued, I called her. Janine, this is J.J. Im coming to D.C. in two days to train U.S. Customs officers with Dr. Mark Frank. Id like you to come meet us for breakfast.

At 7 A.M. sharp, she bounced in smiling, armed with a million questions, and stayed with me for the day. During that exclusive six-hour training session, I watched Janine quickly absorb all the information eagerly and ask brilliant questions. She even learned a dangerously simple deception detection technique that day that she reveals here within the bookbut we cant tell you which one it is because its the number one most effective technique used by Customs to spot someone who 100 percent has something to hide. (We wouldnt want to give that away, would we? Just know its in here!)

Best of all, Janine made me laugh. A lot.

I told her I would be her mentor and that shed be my final protge. But I had one rule: Janine, if I mentor you, then you have to guarantee to mentor others.

That day was the beginning of a beautiful friendship. I started out as Janine Drivers mentor, but, after watching her in action, I soon realized I had become the student. Janine has the remarkable ability to read peoples body language and detect deception. Although Janine is not listed as one of the Truth Wizards (Dr. Maureen OSullivan, who tested the wizards, passed away from cancer before she could ever test her), she is, in my opinion, highly skilled enough to be one. Janine also has two other critically important abilities:

1. She can take any complex, hard-to-understand material and make it fascinating and educational; and
2. Shes a total riot.

In our deadly serious world, you often dont see that combination.

While many of the students Ive trained remain exclusively in the law enforcement world, Janine is one of the few who has successfully decoded and packaged the information for readers like you. Janine has carefully crafted these techniques without giving away any top-secret governmental techniques, adapting them for personal and business settings, so you can save your own life and the lives of people you love.

Out of all the top-secret security clearance people Ive trained and mentored, Janines the playful oneshe takes heavy techniques and the way that they must be used, and she injects them with humor. She coined the term the belly button rule (a.k.a. navel intelligence), brought awareness of naughty bits to the corporate world, and now introduces the BS Barometerall fun, creative, easy-to-understand terms for complex, serious concepts. This playfulness allows her methods and tools to seamlessly cross over into the business world and into the dating, marriage, and keeping-our-children-safe worlds, too.

These days, when I read Janines two books and watch her instruct others, I am in awe. Janines ability to read people is surpassed only by her ability to transfer her knowledge and ability to others. I was thrilled to see how well shed translated that in her first book, You Say More Than You Think. And now, with You Cant Lie to Me, I am blown away. I feel like I am the student reading manuals with little Lyin Tamer gems throughout it.

Janine has learned my stuff and shes made it her own, adding continually along the way. And I know that she expects you to do the same. So whatever you do, learn from the Janine Driver wayand then make it the Kyle way or the Kevin way or the Karen way. Do it