Undesirable Candidate,

Thank you for posting your experience with the FBI pre-employment polygraph. If you do not receive timely notice of your polygraph results (or, if your application is terminated because of the polygraph results), then you should appeal the polygraph result in writing and request a re-test.

A failed FBI polygraph could well affect your ability to hold a clearance elsewhere in government. The FBI may report your polygraph results to your current employer, and even if it doesn't, the fact that you have an FBI HQ file will come up when your clearance is due for review. At that point, your polygraph results will become an issue.

At this point, it might be advisable to seek a phone consultation with Mark S. Zaid, who is representing several plaintiffs suing a number of federal agencies (including the FBI) over their pre-employment polygraph policies. His phone number is  (202) 223-9050. Some filings from the currently pending litigation are available here:

http://antipolygraph.org/litigation.shtml#zaid

Feel free to contact me by e-mail, or by private message through this board (you'll need to register first), if you'd like to discuss anything privately.

PS: Marty is not a polygraph examiner. He has previously expressed interest in the idea that subjects who understand polygraph procedure but do not employ countermeasure might be at a heightened risk of a false positive outcome, and I think his questions were asked in that vein.