Bill Crider wrote on May 26^th, 2004 at 4:02pm:

because of my experience, I am sympthetic to your anger over the hyprocrisy of the polygraph situation. However, you, by your own admission, violated a drug policy. in this case, the polygraph did what is supposed to, even if it involves trickery and was not related to the physical charts. i personally am not against the poly as a tool among many. where it is used to elicit a confession, it is useful. it is absurd to use it as an absolute standard of esatblishing "truth" to the exclusion of all other evidence and investigation.

I'm glad to see that you now agree with me that I was duped into making a substantive admission.  Quite a change from your last post claiming you were not able to recognize that I was "duped".

Considering now that you've admitted to being wrong once already in this thread, maybe you'll be able to admit to being wrong twice? Let's find out...

The so-called "policy" that I admitted to being in violation of is utter-bunk in itself. How can you look into someone's soul and claim he or she is not trustworthy when they freely admit to you their transgressions? Especially when it's something as slight as having smoked a single joint?

Truth is, YOU CAN'T!

But to eliminate someone from the employment process based on an extorted admission during a polygraph, while knowing that the process is beyond problematic and that it is likely others (who are far, far worse) are most likely seeping through the cracks is ... patently absurd!

I do not know that I have been eliminated from the employment process ... yet. I have tremendous qualifications that make it likely they will be willing to work with me in this situation, provided it is properly adjucated and they just don't throw my paperwork out based on this one admission. Even now, after the fact, I am confident I did the right thing in being honest, and believe if they don't offer me the postion they are the fools that the media makes them out to be. That may sound like I have a big ego, and I most certainly do. But the truth is the truth.

Anyway, as I previously mentioned, it is not likely now that I would even accept the postion at this point, having been mal-treated and conned and placed in a position of duress. Why should I want to work under those conditions? The position I was offered sounds extremely exciting, but the job itself requires me to lie to friends, family, and to violate the laws of foreign nations. All of this for an Agency that would treat me poorly and place me under duress for being honest and admitting my guilt? Again, patently absurd...