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Fair Chance, Mark, Skeptic, George, et at.,
This quote says it all. We know how we feel about the polygraph and its usage. Our goal on this site is to inform ohters about how a piece of machinery can destroy a person's life.
It is not about the job. It is not about the money. It is about the person who had their dignity stripped from them and negative label applied on the basis of "junk science."
I have to question SecondChnacePoly once again. He doesn't care about clearing his name. He cares more about his 70 hour work week and all the money his new job brings in more than a chance to clear his name. His anger toward the FBI will dissipate, because he is focused on himself. But I think we all agree that we should be the last to suffer like this -- that's why this site is here. No one should have to go through what we went through.
Although my experiences with the NSA polygraph were extremely unplesant, I can't group myself with you guys. For all I know, I would have gotten the job, and the polygraph accusations were a bluff. I was never actually turned down for the position. Furthermore, given my field (electrical engineering) and education, I have many, many career opportunities. I don't have an ongoing public service career that will suffer from the NSA polygraph (should I find out in the future that my name was publicly tarnished, however, that will be a different matter).
I would have worked enthusiastically for the 'Agency and done good work. But it just wasn't worth the mental and emotional hell of a looming polygraph every five years, especially with other options available (even if less satisfying).
My main focus here is righting an ongoing wrong perpetrated on outstanding public servants such as yourselves, and ending a practice that I feel is a detriment to our national and societal interests.
Quote:An agency based on bureaucracy that only accepts choir boys as agents is doomed to remain bureaucratic.
The ironic thing is that, given the things you are expected to lie about on a CQT, they
aren't looking for choir boys. They're looking for good, naive applicants who take their polygraph on a lucky day (though perhaps they don't think of it this way).
Quote:It's when you get a little dirt under your nails that you realize that bureaucracy isn't effective to completing the mission. I got through my years of Army Intelligence fighting bureaucracy to get results, and I was extremely successful. I guess the FBI isn't interested in success . .
Considering the number of people we have come through this site with all sorts of innane FBI polygraph experiences, I'm not sure the FBI knows
what it wants.
Skeptic