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

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?

What's illegal about hiring the number you need on a first-come, first-serve basis?  Whatever happened to sending the time-honored "we had many more qualified applicants than positions, and at this time we cannot hire everyone.  Thank you for applying and we invite you to return in the future" letter?

Either this is a shining example of bureaucratic stupidity or there's more than a little attempt to score extra political points involved, as well.  "Look! we have polygraphs in our building!  We're one security conscious organization (and they smell nice, too)!"

Skeptic