Mark, I was in a post-test interrogation situation myself. After the examiner finished cycling through the questions, he got up and shouted "Things couldn't look any worse than they are." I was naive about the entire polygraph interrogation procedure at the time, and was completely dumbfounded at how I could derserve winding up in such a situation after spilling my guts. [Also, during the pre-test interview, the examiner brought me to tears regarding the death of my father due to a serious illness just 6 months prior.] The interrogation lasted for hours afterwards, and I would continue to say I was telling the truth all to be rebutted with "We know you're being deceptive and untruthful." When it became apparent that they wouldn't budge a bit, I asked to leave. They never physically restrained me, but was made to understand they weren't about the let me leave. At that point I was becoming genuinely frightened as to what going to become of me on this situation. I had no idea at the time who they were (turns out it was CIA). The examiner walked out of the room, and another walks in a little later and plays good cop. After he saw I was maintining I was truthful, he turns into bad cop. After a while, he leaves, and yet another examiner walks in and the whole thing starts over again. When they saw I wasn't budging, they forced me to sign some form. I completely forgot what it said, but I would have gladly signed a form saying I was Kennedy's assassin (nevermind that I wasn't born at the time....). But after that, as I'm walking out the door, the one examiner extends his hand for me to shake, which I did for some reason, and then he says "It's the worst thing you can do." Wow, words of wisdom to live by. I stayed in there for 5 hours, all too see if in fact I had only smoked pot once in my life (as I reported in my clearance form -- arguably, one of the dumbest things I've ever done (the reporting of the act, not the act itself!). I was indeed completely naive about polygraph interrogations, and now would do things completely differently. Instead of doing what Gino and Mark suggest, I fed the examiners' fetishes by passionately maintaining I was truthful and letting this thing drag on for hours and hours. What a waste of time. I wish I could tell the IRS that I'm refusing to pay the $1200 in federal taxes I owe, and that they should reimburse ME. I can only assume these examiners will one day pay dearly.
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