U.S. Department of Justice


Federal Bureau of Investigation

Washington, D.C. 20535

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##/##/####

Candidate Name
Candidate Address


Dear Candidate Name:

     This is to advise you that our conditional offer of appointment dated ##/##/####, is hereby rescinded.

     Although your desire to become affiliated with this Bureau is appreciated, we are unable to further process your application, based on the results of your polygraph examination on ##/##/####. As you are aware, all applicants for FBI employment must successfully pass a pre-employment polygraph examination. The results of your polygraph examination were not within acceptable parameters.

     I know that this decision will be disappointing to you, but trust that you understand the FBI’s position in this matter.


Sincerely yours,

Therese E Rodrique, Chief
Support Applicant Processing Unit
Administrative Services Division





Processing field office: WF
XXX-HQ-XXXXXXX

Dear Alleged Liar,

Welcome to the wonderful world of "not being within acceptable parameters."  Take a deep breathe and allow yourself some time to calm down.  I know the anger of such allegations is intense.  You will most probably not sleep well for the next few nights and constantly think about this.  This is the anger of a person falsely accused.


Take this anger and immediately contest your results via a certified letter to Therese E. Rodrique, Chief.  Challange the results and request another polygraph.  I know you think the polygraph is a load of s___t but trust me, start the ball rolling.  Go up the chain of command if you get a no.  If your second polygraph goes bad, request another one.  Go up the chain of command.  Do not go away.  Do not "trust that you understand the FBI's position in this matter."  They make mistakes everyday.  Show them that this was a mistake.

Do not allow your anger to distract you from your goal.  Focus it on your goals.  Prove the system wrong.  Do not give up, do not give in, you are in a battle and this is a life and death decision on your integrity.

The difference between what you are and what you want to be is attitude and determination.  Do not let them win by admitting defeat.

Regards.

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The feelings of anger in your situation can make you feel like you don't want to deal with or even think about the situation because you are so heated that you are about to explode.

I urge both of you to put out a simple, short letter denying their charges and respectfully requesting a "re-test." This is not the place to tell them what you think of polygraphy, or even the bureau itself. You simply need to tell them that you did not lie, that the results are erroneous and that you wish to be given another polygraph.

If this turns out badly (regrettably, most do), then you can mount up and ready for battle (preferably through Mark Zaid or another competent attorney). Still, the time and place to tell them off is not at the stage you are in.

In closing, the absolute worst thing you can do is walk away because you are consumed by rage. It is a huge mistake to let that lame, dogmatic form letter be the last thing laying in a folder with your name on it. 

I want to say thanks for the replies and for the moral support. I am drafting my post-rejection reply letter and will send it to the FBI shortly. As I mentioned, I think a major part of my frustration with the polygraph is that it caps off a haphazard, disorganized -- and ultimately counterproductive -- FBI hiring process.

The FBI takes patriotic, well-meaning candidates, drops their applications into a black hole, treats the candidates like crap, then straps them into a chair and calls them liars. Not a good way in my opinion to build public goodwill, as evidenced by my many friends and family members who know my good character and now look at the FBI with much less respect and a fair amount of contempt.

I think the kicker to this whole nightmare was the phone call I got from the bureau -- AFTER THEY HAD ALREADY SENT THE LETTER DISQUALIFYING ME FROM AN INTEL ANALYST POSITION OVER MY POLYGRAPH RESULTS -- wondering if I would consider an operations support position. Huh?! It sure seems like one tentacle of the FBI doesn't know what the other tentacle is doing.

That sort of internal disorganization and miscommunication is downright criminal when you think of the way the FBI could similarly mishandle a person of interest in a terrorism investigation. For such incompetents to call me a liar really is galling. Anyway, that's a representative sample of my experience with the FBI. 

I will now be sending my post-rejection reply letter more in the interest of "clearing my good name" than in actual expectation that they will actually grant me a second polygraph examination or interview.