The_Breeze wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2003 at 5:48pm:

. Let me ask you a serious question now that we have defined faulty in my opinion: Do you believe there is a chance that the high failure rate in Federal LE screeing is intentional, possibly as a result of no other means of reducing a largly talented but unremarkable applicant pool?  I ask because this failure rate of half, is way out of line with my experiences.  Perhaps this is more of a desirability issue than a polygraph issue. In other words, I am an administrator at the FBI and am faced with hundreds of applicants who are qualified, and sucessfull through the process.  How then do I legally weed out such numbers for my limited openings?  I suggest that now minor admissions become significant (absent same in others) and the trimming process begins.  The failure is placed at the polygraph for simplicity sake (no video, no background check, no proof) and an applicant is told they are not within parameters.  Your thoughts?

Dear Breeze,

Without getting into any polygraph validity discussion, your statement could be a good supposition.

I would add "no other cheaper alternative" and it would be a hard argument to fight considering my three experiences and the whole FBI procedure of hiring applicants.

Regards.