Amazing how similar some of these stories are.  I too would have thought this website was fill of whiners prior to my own experience (very much like Johns).

John -- take this advice from a total stranger -- and take it for what it's worth: Don't let this experience define your life -- but learn from it!  It will certainly change your outlook on many things.  You know you were truthful.  Your God knows you were truthful.  Count this as a blessing that you ended a disasterous career path before it even began.  I think the FBI is not what it used to be; or not what you were brainwashed as a child to think it is...

I'm afraid the FBI has taken what would have been a loyal, intelligent and hard-working agent into a now informed (some would say bitter) citizen.  Perhaps now if you're ever called on for jury service you'll be a healthy skeptic of any evidence presented by the state.

For the record: I know some good FBI agents; even they are disillusioned with the dysfunction in their own agency.

Call or email your Senator and protest the way you were treated.  No citizen deserves that crap.

Perhaps some of the other posters can tell us what the letters "FBI" really stand for ;)