LedgerAloft wrote on Jul 26^th, 2018 at 2:26pm:

My overall experience was generally positive as I completed a CI polygraph recently at a government intelligence facility.  The one thing that surprised me is that I was accused of "using countermeasures."  I didn't even know what countermeasures were until I looked them up after I arrived home.

Don't feel bad. I didn't look at anything either, ...until after my 3rd trip to the examiner (poly for a three letter agency). To me, there was no point to look. I would either pass the poly or I wouldn't qualify for a clearance because of the things I articulated to them about my past. For me, it was cut and dry. Well, here I was ... again... for round 3...

I was asked, "Have you looked at anything online about the polygraph?"
I said, "nope."
He continued, "So you don't know anything about thumb tacs in the shoe? Nothing about countermeasures ...nothing like that...?"
I said, "no." (and now in my head I am thinking, what the hell is this guy talking about? I am DEFINITELY going home today to look this up)
He then proceeded to put my feet up on the footrest (yes there are reclining features in those chairs folks) and start with his rounds of questions.

Needless to say I failed this round and was essentially called a liar. Funny thing was; they brought me back a fourth time, added some new questions, changed the format of some old questions and I passed.