Quote:Dan Mangan wrote on Dec 18
th, 2014 at 7:53pm:
Victim, speaking as a polygraph professional, I suggest you consider having your exam reviewed by an independent consultant who is a member of the American Polygraph Association.
Understand that the written report of your exam means next to nothing. A full review requires all of the raw polygraph data, plus the entire video.
Many times, an independent review results in nullification of the "test."
If you cannot get your complete polygraph file (with video), assistance from legal counsel or a union official may be in order.
Is it possible to ask for this kind of an independent review on a NSA polygraph?
My husband also has ADHD, and likely has mild Asperger's syndrome. *I* know that he doesn't have the same kind of affect as normal, neuro-typical people, but a 20-something polygrapher, w/ no more training than a barber, probably doesn't.
Also, my husband and I are both religious, and he *told them that*. Thanks to this site, I know that probably flags him for deception. You can't freaking win with these people!!!!!
Because of his convictions, he won't get on this site, or read anything I've downloaded, or let me try to coach him in any way. I even tried to slip in some suggestions, and he gave me the "look" and changed the subject.
He would love this job. He would be so good at it. Our family would love the move to the DC area, as well as the chance for him to be the sole provider, and me to stay home with the kids/work on my art. It ticks me off, and hacks at my sense of justice/fairness, that his job opportunity could be torpedoed thanks to the skewed sense of some under-trained polygrapher, and his super-strong conscience.
Rant over.
It is true, as quickfix mentioned, that NSA polygraph examinations are subjected to internal reviews. However, there is no procedure for an applicant to obtain an
independent review of an NSA polygraph examination.
Quickfix's statement that I failed two polygraph exams with two different agencies is also true; however, his claim that I attempted to use countermeasures is false. If interested, you can read about my polygraph experience in my public statement,
Too Hot of a Potato: A Citizen-Soldier's Encounter with the Polygraph.
Quickfix is correct in stating that DoD (NSA's parent agency), as a policy matter, does not probe religious beliefs during polygraph examinations. This does not preclude, however, the potential for examiner bias. And the federal polygraph school's
Interview and Interrogation Handbook specifically states that an examinee's statement that he is very religious is an indication of deception.
At p. 52 (p. 64 of the PDF) we find "Deceptive suspects may support their answers with religion or oaths."
At p. 55 (p. 67 of the PDF) "I'm very religious" is listed as a "statement of verbal deception."
At p. 108 (p. 120 of the PDF) "I don't steal because I am a religious person" is cited as a form of denial or "escapism."