Public Servant - can you PLEASE pass me some of that Kool-Aid you and your self-righteous ilk are passing around. Integrity -- don't make me laugh. See my comments in the other section about cops and firemen drinking like fish, and then hopping behind the wheel of their cars. As a fireman, I went to countless accident scene where their "brothers in blue" looked the other way at such transgressions. The best was the case where local cops actually arrested an off-duty NYPD officer for drunk driving – and then received death threats at the station for doing so!

Let me trying phrasing this another way – not one of the men and women in blue (and the firemen) who died in 9-11 – not a single one, ever had to take a polygraph exam to get their position. How can the best police and fire departments in the nation (I’m showing my native NY bias) manage to thrive without using polygraphs to screen recruits?

Some of the best cops I know where the biggest druggies when they were teens. People can change -- and using the polygraph to ferret them out, at the very real risk of disqualifying honest candidates, is stupid and unfair.