LieBabyCryBaby wrote on May 12^th, 2009 at 3:19pm:

You can sit there and claim that it was the polygraph that was at fault, and you can blame the examiner.However, no one fails every relevant question on a screening exam without bearing most of the blame himself.

There are other possible explanations that you haven't considered, for example: 1) possibly different scoring criteria in the immediate aftermath of the arrest of CIA spy Aldrich Ames (who beat the polygraph); you'll recall that my FBI polygraph was in 1995, the year after Ames' arrest, and the FBI had just recently implemented its pre-employment polygraph screening program; during this same period hundreds of innocent CIA employees who had trouble passing polygraph screening exams were in "polygraph limbo," 2) examiner error, 3) examiner misconduct.

Again, I answered all relevant questions truthfully and did not use countermeasures of any kind, "spontaneous" or otherwise. In your initial post in this message thread, you suggest that because I failed my FBI polygraph--and a fortiori because I failed every relevant question--that I am not to be trusted. But considering that I told the truth (and a thorough background investigation failed to corroborate any of the polygrapher's accusations of deception) and that the consensus view of the scientific community is that polygraphy has no scientific basis, I say that it is polygraphs -- and those who operate them -- that are not to be trusted.