wrote on Jul 6^th, 2011 at 12:33am:

I have a BIG CORRECTION to make.  I apologize for this in advance and sorry for any trouble I caused.  In my original posts, I claimed  that I was caught using CMs on "Control Questions" for pre-employment with a top secret government agency.  I had kept a personal journal of my recruitment process where I documented everything that occured, then stashed it away for some time.  I have just dug this journal up out of my clutter and discovered something.  The questions that I was asked on my polygraph WERE NOT CONTROL QUESTIONS, they were IRRELEVANT QUESTIONS as classified in TLBTLD book on this site.  I didn't realize this at first but after re-reading TLBTLD, I noticed this.  Therefore, I had been using the breathing method of CMs on the Irrelevant Questions, not Control Questions which are non-existent in this polygraph session.  I bet that by me using breathing CMs at the wrong time (TLBTLD says they should be used during control questions, not irrelevant questions), that I screwed myself.  This is likely the reason for my failure of the polygraph.  Well, I admit this mistake.  I recommend everyone reading TLBTLD thorougly  before you take a poly so you don't make the same mistake I did.  Anyway, I'm sorry for the confusion.  I used breating CMs at the wrong time and I screwed myself.   I have more faith in this website now.  I was busted due to only to my negligence.

Thank you for posting this clarification. Your subsequent post, however, is entirely inappropriate and an egregious violation of AntiPolygraph.org's posting policy. Under normal circumstances, it would be removed to the Discarded Posts forum. However, given the controversy that this message thread has engendered, it seems appropriate to leave it here so that readers may form their own judgments.

To All,

I do not assume that "busted" is a polygrapher trolling the forum. While such behavior is not without precedent, it does not seem to me that busted's postings in this thread are an example of such.