Doug Williams wrote on Jun 17^th, 2017 at 2:45am:


Let's not forget that the ranks of the thugs include not only the polygraph charlatans, but one must also not overlook the rest of the bottom-feeding scavengers that staff the various Offices of Security throughout the IC.   

John M. wrote on Jun 13^th, 2017 at 12:48am:


I believe that he could certainly be regarded as a political prisoner or prisoner of conscience, but of course the DOJ Bureau of Prisons insists that there are no political prisoners in the Federal gulag!

John M. wrote on Jun 16^th, 2017 at 6:56pm:


You can always count upon the IC to come up with the most creative labels for its various internal components.   

xenonman wrote on Jun 18^th, 2017 at 7:01am:

Right on Xenonman -  I just spoke to a friend who is currently in Germany and was recently given a tour of the former East German Stasi prison known as Hohenschönhausen.  He went into detail about what he learned about Stasi tactics and it put a chill up my spine to realize that our current polygraphic/security jackasses are just like the former Stasi thugs.  Persecuting innocent people is their specialty.  When we celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall we never knew that we had already contracted the social disease that infected the Warsaw Pact.  I hope that we come to our senses like the former East Germans did.   

Today is Father's Day.  Remember and pray for all of the fathers who are unable to adequately provide for their families due to losing their livelihood after being falsely accused by these frauds in the polygraph and security communities.   

Wandersmann wrote on Jun 18^th, 2017 at 7:47pm:


Let us also remember the families of the hundreds of thousands of unsung American service personnel, including many fathers, who have died in action since 1947.  For them, there was no diplomatic immunity, embassy, or safe house to cower behind.  In that same period, only about 119 "brave" CIA personnel have met a similar fate.   

Wandersmann wrote on Jun 19^th, 2017 at 5:24pm:


Hopefully you are right.  However it has been the courts that generally have protected the ability of the IC to  avoid any real oversight.  It is also the federal courts that continue to pass down the harsh sentences on whistleblowers.

Having observed personally how the limited reforms of the Watergate era have all been whittled down to the point of ineffectiveness, my faith in the judiciary to effect any real reform is indeed very limited. 

Why would they even need to polygraph more than once?  If they can take unfavorable administrative actions for failing to successfully pass it, why conduct the same procedure over and over and over and over?

Think about that.  If the polygraph works, why would they need to do it five times in three years?

I have it in writing - they said that two polygraphs a year is not considered to be excessive.  I wonder what regulation that came from.

After the first failed attempt, each successive one gets worse.  Fear is a powerful emotion.  And for me, fear of failure is as intense as it is uncontrollable.   

If the actual “test” only has five or six questions, why does it take five hours to complete?  You know why as well as I do, to “crappity smack with you mentally”, as Mr. Williams so eloquently puts it.  The mental torture is real and will live on with you forever.

All in the hype to catch the next Snowden.

Abuse by polygraph must be stopped right now.  Those who are responsible for allowing it continue must be held accountable and forced to follow the approved and relevant laws and regulations.

***** To see what constitutes an unfavorable administration, check out the attached from the Code of Federal Regulations: § 154.3 (bb) and (cc) – p. 754