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Say what you will about the polygraph, it has done one thing that makes it worthwhile. It has kept George and his little group of cry babies out of our government law enforcement and intelligence services.
Time for me to chime in here, I suppose. If I read George's post correctly, the point was not that the bureau was loosing qualified applicants, rather qualified and valuable informants.
The question here is quite real and important. Should law enforcement use the polygraph as a screening tool on informants? Without a question, it has proven to be poorly used in such instances. Further, it has caused a lot of innocent people to die as a result of faith in it.
To say that the loss of innocent lives is an acceptable loss is utter nonsense. What an outrage!
Fed-up Fed, I believe your anger at what this site accomplishes will become more incited when it leads more of the public population, who doesn't have a career or job on the line. finding the reslove to put this witch hunt to an deserved end.
As it stands now, there are perhaps 100 applicants to every federal law enforcement job opening. Enough people are not being rejected and harmed to demand the removal of polygraph pre-screening at this time. However, when we find that not only the first WTC bombing, but the OK City bombing, as well as 9/11 could have been prevented if law enforcement actually used real investigative methods as opposed to some futile belief in the polygraph results, the public at large will rise up and demand that no more lives be sacrificed for belief in this lunacy.
It becomes a totally different issue to the public when brutally violent murders through acts of terrorism are allowed to occur because of misplaced belief in the polygraph.