quickfix wrote on Oct 3^rd, 2015 at 5:41pm:

Lives "ruined"? No, that's bullshit.  No one is "entitled" to government employment or a security clearance.  They are privileges, not rights.  If you don't get hired, your life is not ruined.  You find another job and move on.

Military officers and people of commensurate background have earned the right not to have their integrity challenged unless there exists specific information that they are dishonest.  Specific as in evidence stronger than a polygraph.   You must be insane if you think that someone who has prepared his or her life for a profession in law enforcement or the military can find any type of commensurate employment anywhere else after being blacklisted by the polygraph.  From CIA Case Officer to managing a McDonalds ?  Is that what you mean ?  Lawyer and judges aren't entitled to bar membership either.  Why don't we polygraph them and take away their entitlement to practice law if they don't pass ?  You may say that national security is too important.  Most of our security leaks, however, come from the privileged few who are so high up they aren't threatened by the polygraph.  What hypocrisy.  The mere fact that there are people in our national security apparatus who get access and aren't held accountable to the same standards (our new royalty) means the entire polygraph program is a joke.   

I'll gladly answer your above question.  If a rapist successfully used CMs to pass a polygraph and then raped my wife/daughter/sister,  I would be even more Anti-Polygraph than ever before.  I wouldn't hold one thing against Doug Williams but I would despise the stupid cops that relied on a polygraph instead of using old-fashioned, proven police work. 

Polygraphers make a living collecting easy stats without having to prove anything while honest cops are busting their butts working day and night to make real cases.