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How is the polygraph currently used by federal agencies like the FBI, CIA, NSA, NRO, DoD, DOE, DEA, BATFE, and U.S. Secret Service, as well as state and local agencies? What laws, regulations, and guidelines govern the use of polygraphs for screening, criminal investigations, administrative investigations, and other purposes?
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Pre-Employment Border Patrol poly and the Military
10 months ago, I took and failed the pre-employment polygraph for the Border Patrol.  The event went like this:  Take, fail, admit to some drug use from a decade ago, take fail the drug use question a...

Started Oct 18th, 2011 at 3:54pm by pjack911
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60% CT State Police Polygraph Failure Rate!
The Connecticut State Police have provided the following statistics in a "Selection Process Update":
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As of August 27, 2003, all of the six hundred seventy three (673) candidates scheduled for ...


Started Nov 8th, 2003 at 8:07am by George W. Maschke
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Local Government Polygraph
As we know most local police agencies use polygraph testing to weed out applicants. Some people are not even told that the reason they were rejected was because of the polygraph. Allow me a couple of ...

Started Jan 1st, 1970 at 12:00am by Bundy (Guest)
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By: George W. Maschke
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SFPD Polygraph Policy
As mentioned on the blog, the current issue of S.F. Weekly has a great article by Matt Smith about the San Francisco Police Department's misplaced reliance on polygraph screening in the hiring process...

Started Aug 12th, 2009 at 2:05pm by George W. Maschke
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Any science or engineering job issues?
I am completing my master’s degree in a sub-discipline of nuclear physics. After graduation it is likely that I will be seeking employment at various government and private nuclear facilities, what I ...

Started Mar 5th, 2012 at 11:01pm by anon1943
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Failed FBI poly and want it removed
I took a FBI poly and found out through FOIA that they suspected countermeasures. Will this effect getting a clearance or job with another Fed agency and can I get the FBI to withdraw their countermea...

Started Feb 24th, 2012 at 3:35am by franktie
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Am I supposed to admit drug use?
So here is the situation. I have a few opportunities for employment, each of which requires me to pass a polygraph test. I have tried marijuana(dozen times probably), cocaine(like 3 or 4 times) and op...

Started Feb 27th, 2007 at 9:27pm by Jinsankon
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By: figs
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A Response to Doug Williams
A Response to Doug Williams
by George W. Maschke
1 August 2003
Douglas Gene Williams, author of "How to Sting the Polygraph," a manual on polygraph countermeasures that is available for sale on his...

Started Aug 1st, 2003 at 12:18pm by George W. Maschke
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LAPD Civilian Jobs Tested?
Are civilian jobs within the various Southern California agencies subject to polygraph testing as well?

Started Feb 3rd, 2012 at 3:53am by M (Guest)
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Latest Study Indicates "Lie Behind the Lie Detector" Hurts Innocent, Doesn't Help Guilty
Information does not affect the validity of a comparison question test
Authors: Honts, Charles R.1; Alloway, Wendy R.1
Source: Legal and Criminological Psychology, Volume 12, Number 2, S...

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Started Oct 15th, 2007 at 6:40pm by skip.webb
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American Polygraph Association Board Member Steve Duncan a "Testiliar?"
UPDATE: Benjamin Birkbeck was convicted and sentenced to 40 years in prison. According to prosecutor Kevin McMurray, the polygraph "evidence" (portions of which are demons...
It appears that Stev

Started May 4th, 2007 at 5:36am by George W. Maschke
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Failed CIA poly and inactive DoD clearance
I failed a Agency poly in 2003 and have just heard that my appeal was denied (no surprise).  For the last few years I've had a IR on my clearance in JPAS waiting for final adjudication from the Agency...

Started Aug 31st, 2010 at 2:51pm by tennvol (Ex Member)
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Police want me to have a polygraph
I am a suspect in taking some high value equipment from a business because I'm a key hold of the company. I DID NOT take anything and spent over an hour in a room with a detective while he questioned ...

Started Jan 13th, 2012 at 4:58am by hellothere
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Personal Training Question?
Does anyone have any experience with these companies who offer "personal training" to beat the box? I would feel a lot better if I were to be able to practice on a live machine before subjecting mysel...

Started Dec 23rd, 2011 at 4:26pm by Question? (Guest)
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Assist. Principal Joshua Myers convicted in child sex crimes, but HE PASSED THE FBI POLY!!!
Folks, here is another late-breaking news story that further proves the polygraph is garbage.
Joshua Myers sentenced to five years in prison for child sex crimes
Now read the first paragraph of th...

Started Dec 9th, 2011 at 10:36pm by username1
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The Polygraph Interrogation of Kevin Fox
On 27 October 2004, investigators from the Will County, Illinois Sheriff's Office coerced a false confession from Kevin Fox to the sexual molestation and murder of his four-year-old daughter following...

Started May 2nd, 2006 at 10:37am by George W. Maschke
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AFOSI Polygraph Challenge Coin
In the U.S. military, there is a tradition whereby units have a medallion about the size of a silver dollar made up. These medallions are typically referred to as "unit coins." Members of the unit car...

Started Mar 5th, 2002 at 10:23am by George W. Maschke
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LTC Anthony Shaffer's Experience with the CIA Polygraph
US Army Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer, who alleges that a DIA data-mining program uncovered cells implicated in the 9/11 attacks in 2000, and DIA decided not to notify the FBI, briefly discussed ...

Started Oct 7th, 2011 at 1:38pm by George W. Maschke
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DOD CIA NSA DIA FBI polygraph policy
I have read through a ton of d.o.d. and cia policy concerning polygraph results and disqualifcation from the hiring process.  Posts by NSAreject etc. seem to suggest that these agencies cannot reject ...

Started Oct 4th, 2011 at 7:13pm by leoroy jefferson (Guest)
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A Public Challenge to Doug Williams, Author of "How to Sting the Polygraph"
Doug Williams, author of "How to Sting the Polygraph," which he markets through his website, www.polygraph.com (and who has, in the past, masqueraded on this message board as a satisfied customer of h...

Started May 23rd, 2007 at 6:49pm by George W. Maschke
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