I just got back from my FBI polygraph where the "tester" told me that I failed the test, but they would still be sent to Washington for further review.  I don't know if this is just part of the mind-f*** to see my reaction or if I really did fail and my hopes of working for the FBI have truly shriveled up.

The experience was almost the same as everyone elses except I didn't expect the examiner to look at me like a mass murderer when I admitted to underage drinking (7 years ago) and cheating once on a test.  I laughed inside though when she went from being mean and saying how much of a piece of crap I was, to asking me how my recent wedding was!

I also find it odd that I was told during the stim test that I wasn't breathing normally and needed to concentrate on my breathing.  Then at the end of the test she told me that my charts looked like I was using counter-measures because I was concentrating on my breathing.  She also said that I was having trouble with the drug question, which we had discussed at length before the test and I wasn't nervous about, and the question regarding contacts with foreign intel agencies which is ridiculous.  I served in the Iraq war and consider my self a partiot.  The thought of selling my country out for anything is just funny.

Oddly enough though, I'm not really that pissed about it.  I don't know if it's because it hasn't sunk in yet, or because I know who I am, that I'm an honest person, and that it's the Bureau's loss if they decide to hire me based on a "test" and not the things I've done.