Put nothing past the bumbling bureaucracy that is the clearance process of our beloved FLE system.  About a month after my second and final "inconclusive" polygraph, an investigator came around asking my neighbors about me.

This is despite the fact that my fate was sealed a month earlier when the second polygraph examiner recommended, on the day of the test, no further processing (which I found out from my FOIA request).  Incidently, that was an outright lie to my face, as he told me that he saw "nothing that would hold me back."  I guess lying is ok when you are on the other side of the machine and it's convenient.

If you think about it, those of us who apply and lay it all out there, if we dont get hired, we not only dont get the FLE job, we also put our current jobs in jeapordy.  In addition, I'm finding out that the BI guy interviewed several of my neighbors, who are, let us say, some unsavory and also foreigners, who know know I'm affiliated with the Feds.  I told him beforehand not to talk to them, but talk to some other neighbors.....of course, he talked to them anyway.  I'm not being biased or paranoid, just stating the facts and being realistic about the world we live in today.

From this perspective, it could seem like those of us who apply for jobs like this really put our professional and personal lives on the line, and in the end, dont get the job.