Guys I am dying here I took a ploy a year ago and failed it because they think I am some huge drug head which is far from the truth!!! I took steroids a few time in high school and college. I told the truth and they said I was lying. Now I have never done drugs beyond that but they don't believe it. This was for CBP now I want to apply for a deportation officer position they just opened up. Do you guys think I am flagged by them or should I give it a second chance. Again I never received a letter explaining why I failed they just e-mailed me saying I was un suitable for the CBP officer position. I would truly apperciate some feed back on this.

thanks,

Tom

I  think that Mr. Quickfix may have been the same piece of work that was trolling me on the "Federal Soup" forum a while back.

Very defensive on all aspects of the federal BI process!

Evan S wrote on Jun 8^th, 2015 at 8:51pm:


Likewise, the CIA, NRO, NSA, etc. aren't going away anytime soon either.
As long as we continue in the delusional mentality that such agencies are "necessary" to "protect" us,
the polygraph will remain.

The Intelligence Community and the polygraph are but two nefarious components of a culture of secrecy and unaccountability.

I was told I failed because I was tapping my foot and it was considered counter measures. Now I explained to the instructor it was simply a nervous twice nothing more. Then he began to give me the third degree about how he's been doing this a long time and seen a lot of things and he knows what he saw. I continued to plead my case by telling him I'm nervous and it was nothing of the sort. Then he began to pressure me into believing that my only chances to continue was to write an apology letter to the  Dept. and ask for forgiveness. So I did under duress. Which at the end I told him I still believe I did nothing wrong. It was the last step in the process and was nervous. At the end he said he was writing a report about me trying to use counter measures to beat the test and I insisted that he was wrong it was a nervous twitch and nothing more.    I'm trying to request a retest but not sure if they will. 
   
If anybody has any advise that would help I would be grateful...

Also does any know know if it is possible to rescind a false statement made under duress.

Tasha1,

Please take no offense, as none is intended, but I didn't ask what your polygraph operator told you to write, but rather what you wrote. It is the latter that is of crucial importance in advising you further.

Tasha1,

Thank you. The admission that you were trying to use countermeasures to beat the test will be damning. I don't see any way that you will end up being hired by this agency, but you can (and should) still write a letter explaining what you've mentioned here: that you wrote the letter under duress, and that you were not, in fact, attempting to beat the polygraph. Your letter will help to document what actually happened and may help if your file is ever shared with any other agency.

It should be obvious to any polygraph operator that nervous foot tapping is not a polygraph countermeasure. What this operator did to you is truly outrageous, and it shouldn't go unchallenged.

I would be interested to learn more about the name of the agency and polygraph operator involved, if you don't mind sharing those details. You might not want to post such detail on a public message board at this time, but you can reach me privately by e-mail to antipolygraph.org@protonmail.com.