First off, I would like to kindly thank the FBI polygrapher who told me about this site, I only wish I had found it prior to my polygraph nightmare. It would seem that I too am the  recipient of the dreaded letter.  I was accused of using countermeasures on questions like my name and where I work by the polygrapher.  Damndest thing is I never heard of countermeasures prior to the poygrapher accusing me of using them.  On the relevant questions I scored fine..Go figure. 
The only thing I can think of that was bothering me was the fact that I had my fit test scheduled immediately following the polygraph and was hyper stressed about it due to having to run with a slight sress fracture in my left leg and severe shin splints in my right leg.
So I guess my next step is to write some letters to try and get a retest, but I doubt that will do any good.
I do have one question, aside from the director of the FBI, should I also write letters to the applicant coordinator in my home off as well as to the person in D.C. that sent me the rejection letter?

Thanks,
TS

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I JUST WANTED TO SAY HI TO THE FBI POLYGRAPHER READING THIS

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Hi John! how ya doing?  You really dropped the ball on my exam..lol.. Probably not you, but feels nice pretending.  I sure am having a hard time believing that an agency which I highly respect uses a test which is so flawed....I repeat, I wish I had known about this site before my test, because I was dumb enough to go into it thinking that telling the truth is the way to go..
Boy was I wrong

I do not know nor pretend to know where ground truth lies with regard to this thread’s story.  That having been said, I do believe that neither my former colleagues in the FBI nor anyone else involved with polygraphy can reliably and accurately identify countermeasure application as would be confronted in commonly utilized polygraph screening exams.  Because of that and their (FBI Polygraph Examiner's) likely and correct realization that someone is using such countermeasures somewhere at sometime, I do think it probable that some wild guessing leading to wrongful accusation(s) of countermeasure usage is most likely occurring.   
 
On a more fundamental level though, I do believe that one or more of those examiners possesses the requisite grain of sense to realize that polygraph screening does not work as intended, is a veritable disaster, and should be discontinued.  What I am left wondering though is whether there are one or more such individuals who also possess the fortitude to buck the system and risk the consequences of telling the emperor that he is naked when it comes to such matters…

Gentlemen, thank you for your kind words as well as recommendations for action.  I will be writting a letter/letters this weekend, perhaps they will allow me a retest, but my hopes are not real high. 
My wife has been so great throughout all this turmoil, to say this has been a major dissapointment would be an understatement but having her stand  there beside me has helped enormously.
The thing that gets me is that I was rejected solely without merit.  If it had been phase one or phase two testing that I did not pass, it would be one thing, but to be rejected due to a flawed test and flawed polygrapher is really eating me up.  Like I stated before, I have patterned my life since the age of eight in the hopes of becoming and FBI agent.  I avoided all the trappings of drugs, theft etc because in my head I would tell myself that if I did this act, I could never be in the FBI, not that I would do them anyway, but I would fall back on the FBI as a mental check, so to speak.   
Damn I am pissed off!!  To think I was more than willing to give up my current career that pays more than twice what an agent makes in order to realize a childhood dream.  I absolutely had no reason to use countermeasures, and especially on such irrelevant questions like my name.  It just makes no sense.

Thanks again guys,
TS

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Well no BS here my friend, it must be your breath...
Riddle me this smart guy, I now have a better understanding of the questions asked on the poly and it still seems highly illogical that I would use counter measures on questions such as my name etc and not on the relavent ones... But hey what do I know?..
Thanks again for your insightfull post it has been helpful.
I guess the saying is true opinions are like assholes, every one has one, and you appear to have a large one than most.

--ts

Hey every one who knows of this site. I am a married man of seven years, Tow years ago I was a porn junky. Basically to piss my wife off."full of regrets"!!! any way I cheated on her and she turned my pc to a state trooper. They asked me for permission for a foresic search I agreed "no big damn deal??" well I was arrested for "encouraging child sex abuse2" i.e. three thumbnails of teens were on pages as ads. I took a post conviction specific issue poly. I passed whith flying colors with everything I had lied about. Ecept!!! the questions the examiner emphasised verbally. I had no "stim" test or anything to verify a lie. I was also yelled at because I moved my arm and was threated with jail term. Then I was asked the relavent question directly afterwards. I was pissed and there was never any recording of any kind. HELP!!!! WHAT DO I DO?

If you are told by the agency the polygraph is reliable, and you make a career decision to take it believing it is accurate, I think you should be able to take legal action if you are false positive.  And especially if the agency really was aware of the high false positive rates all along.

Lawyer

If one files a court action against the polygrapher and his agency charging them with falsly labeling one a liar (which essentially blacklists one with all other agencies), isn't it up to that side to prove their innocense? Especially when it can be proved, for instance, that one never used or sold drugs? Also, isn't blacklisting against the law?