Quote:George, if you are quickfix, thanks. Thanks for helping me tell the complete story and to show just how ridiculous this whole situation is.
I'm pretty certain that George (if you are referring to the Moderator of AP) is not "quickfix"!
I wish that I had had the benefit of this most revealing thread back when I was wasting time with IC applications. It's people like Mr. Q who are the ones whom are making the personnel decisions throughout the IC. These are the troglodytes who conduct and "interpret" the polygraph, and conduct and misinterpret the BI's. It is they who control the access to the various gates to the IC. It's certainly not the IC recruiters, who are probably kept wholly in the dark by their respective Offices of Security, thus enabling recruiters to make false promises, and even to initiate contact with prospective applicants whom people like "Q" have already determined to have "improper" backgrounds.
The present thread has been most revealing for me about the blind cave salamanders who really run the IC. "Q" has trashed me extensively over at "federalsoup", the online forum for federal employees seeking to raise their "GS" levels.
In that regard, those at the CIA already have the unique advantage of being two full GS grades above federal employees at other agencies with similar qualifications and education levels!
I think we have to realize that folks like "Q" honestly believe that, in controlling the IC's personnel selection processes, they are final line of national defense that keeps Kim Jong-Un's navy from sailing up the Columbia to Portland, or Raul Castro's Cuban Revolutionary Navy from shelling Fort Lauderdale.
Had I had the benefit of this thread 30 or 40 years ago, I might have better grasped the reasons for such agencies as the CIA or DMA (one of the many predecessors to the NGIA) and their personnel policies being as f*cked up as they are!