quickfix wrote on Oct 17
th, 2017 at 7:30pm:
C'mon George- In the absence of evidence??? HE PLED GUILTY!!! YOU WERE THERE! YOU SAW AND HEARD IT YOURSELF!!! A guilty plea is the same as if he were tried and convicted. No one else made the decision to plead guilty. No one pleads guilty in the absence of evidence.
Quickfix, perhaps I was insufficiently clear. My point was that the U.S. government orchestrated Operation Lie Busters in an effort to entrap Doug Williams in the absence of any
prior evidence that he had committed any crime. And as Doug has pointed out, the only crimes to which he ultimately pled guilty are those that our government set up.
The fact that our government so feared what Doug Williams has to say about polygraphy that it set out to entrap him is ample evidence that it takes what he has to say on this topic very seriously indeed.
quickfix wrote on Oct 17
th, 2017 at 7:30pm:
On the basis that he did not pass 5 CI polygraphs If 5 is indeed correct). When you don't provide reasonable information concerning the cause of your responses, you leave the government no recourse but to assume the worst. Involvement in espionage, terrorism, sabotage, unreported foreign contacts, or deliberately mishandling classified information. Those are the issues. The government will take the prudent course of action, which is to remove the person from access, and neutralize the threat. And regardless of what John M. may think, the IC takes the same course of action; military or civilian, no pass, no access. As it should be.
Thank you also, quickfix, for explaining your rationale for calling John M. a threat to national security. I don't question your good faith on this, but I sincerely think that you attach to polygraph screening a validity that it does not possess.
Let us suppose for the sake of argument that, as he avers, John M. has not had any involvement in espionage, terrorism, sabotage, unreported foreign contacts, or the deliberate mishandling of classified information. He's an honest public servant who has answered all relevant questions truthfully. What sort of information concerning the causes of his responses might he be able to provide that you would find reasonable? Is there any?