You're very welcome. I hope you receive good news soon.

Thank you, I really appreciate your summary!

Your polygraph operator's admonition "Don't try to help me" was intended to discourage polygraph countermeasures. His final question, "Did you Google 'polygraph' this morning?" also indicates that he suspected you may have used polygraph countermeasures.

Polygraph operators are concerned about polygraph countermeasures such as those documented in Chapter 4 of The Lie Behind the Lie Detector because they are effective and they don't have any proven means of detecting them.

However, the mildness of your post-test interrogation (the absence of any direct accusation that you lied or used countermeasures) suggests that you probably passed or that the outcome was at worst "inconclusive."

The fact that the agency with which you're applying is continuing looking into your background after receiving your polygraph results is further indication that you did not "fail."

As for signing any paperwork at the end, I expect that such practice depends on the policies of the agency involved.

quickfix wrote on Jun 27^th, 2020 at 10:43am:

Well, quickfix, that’s a great game plan and I suggest you stick with it. But, bear this in mind, my students don’t get caught, and if they get accused of using your so-called “counter measures” they never confess.

Doug Williams wrote on Jun 26^th, 2020 at 11:54am:

We look forward to it.  Our countermeasure confession rate went down while you were gone.

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Well, it helps quite a lot to be crazy...

Doug, I gotta hand it to you. While most guys your age, sit on lawn chairs on a concrete driveway watering the grass while playing with grandchildren, you exhibit maximum grit.

Hey, quickfix, would you care to comment on how you and your fellow thugs and charlatans are gonna respond to this?

Doug Williams wrote on Jun 26^th, 2020 at 11:41am:

Regarding my continuing Quixotic crusade against the thugs and charlatans in the US federal government polygraph industry, I would like to make this public announcement: on July 27, 2020, I will be resuming my PERSONAL POLYGRAPH TEST PREPARATION TRAINING. This will leave the thugs and charlatans in the US federal government polygraph industry with two options: one, throw my ass back in prison for teaching people how to beat a polygraph test, or, two, stop using the damn polygraph as a lie detector because you never know how many people have been trained to beat the damn thing.

The polygraph aids and abets murderers, traitors, spies, and rapists. Anybody working with the polygraph industry should be treated the same way as any member of a criminal organization.