George,

I'm truly sorry to hear how your FBI polygraph experience has adversely affected your life, and your employment opportunities.  It is sad that a person of your work experience, education, and service to our country had to pay a personal and professional price because of our government's blind faith in a machine that measures physiological responses to questions. 

I find it especially disturbing that the Army would turn it's back on you after all your years of service because the issue is too much of a "hot potato."  This is truly pathetic, and has lowered my opinion of Army leadership in the MI community. 

Good luck to you George, and don't give up the ship!

Kona
PS  Isn't Trimarco that knucklehead on Court TV's new series on lie detection?  I guess it didn't take him long to cash in after his retirement.   

Guest,

There is very little that is certain in this world and there exists perhaps proportionately an even greater degree of uncertainty associated with message board posts.  One of the few things we seem to be able to count on here are the mindless retorts coming from the polygraph community as well represented by your last post and almost (if not completely) a uniformly mindless and uncaring analysis when it comes to stories of polygraph victimization.

Guest, I too think you are an uncaring degenerate.  You are an absolute disgrace to the human race.  What kind of pathetic simpleton would make ridicule about a situation like George's.  If you are a polygrapher, you are a disgrace to the polygraph community.  If you are a representation of your peers, you should all be beaten with pipes as far as I'm concerned.  I normally would not resort to this kind of comment, but it sickens me when someone like yourself cannot, or will not even try to consider the possibility that just maybe polygraph exams are not as reliable as you think.   What is so hard to understand about the fact that these outdated rituals are completely absurd?  I'm sure they do work sometimes, but to hold them in such high regard is totally idiotic.   In closing I would like to reiterate what a sad piece of ----you are.  I'm willing to bet any amount that your service to your community and country, not to mention your life achievements would pale in comparison to George's.-

Yes, anonymous you are right.  I really do want to do something more WORTHWHILE.  I wish you were here in front of me right now so I could bitch slap your little cry baby ass.  Now that would be WORTHWHILE.

George,
Do you now publicly admit that you are/where, have always been Capt Jones because the Army has awarded you your Honorable Discharge?  Based on what I read, what else could they have done to screw you over?

Congrats on the HD.

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Thank you for your congratulations. I was not concerned that my public identification as the author of the Captain Jones statement could somehow result in a less-than-honorable discharge, if that's what you're suggesting.

Rather, it seemed to me that, as the end of my military service drew near, it was an appropriate time to update my earlier statement, which was by then more than four years old. Over the past several years, I've spoken about my polygraph experience in a variety of public settings, for example, in written testimony submitted for the record in a U.S. Senate hearing, at a public meeting of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee to Review the Scientific Evidence on the Polygraph, and on CBS 60 Minutes II. It seemed appropriate to discard the pseudonym under which I had first written.

So George, you would have us believe that your “code” is what drove you to build a website and write a book containing a compilation of material, (most of which was already available and had been for twenty years or more).  And you state, “I like to think that by working to expose polygraph "testing" for the pseudoscientific quackery that it is, I am perhaps making as significant a contribution to my country as I might have made had I been allowed to continue in government service.”  The fact is you would have been allowed to continue had you not made such a public spectacle of yourself.

I fail to see any “significant contribution”, or for that matter any contribution at all.   What I do see is the raving of a petulant ego maniac seeking revenge against a perceived wrong, and trying to convince everyone, (including himself), that he is doing this as a service to mankind.