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Posted by George W. Maschke
 - May 08, 2001, 07:30 PM
The FBI's pre-employment polygraph guidelines, taken from the FBI Manual of Investigative Operations and Guidelines, are now available on AntiPolygraph.org at:

http://antipolygraph.org/documents/fbi-polygraph-guidelines.shtml

Note that these guidelines clearly state, at para. 67-7.10 (4):

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A preemployment polygraph examination is one element of the overall applicant screening process. It is not to be considered as a substitute for a thorough and complete background investigation....

Yet for those who "fail" or whose charts are scored as "inconclusive," the polygraph is "a substitute for a thorough and complete background investigation." Their applications are, in nearly all cases, summarily terminated. No further investigation is conducted.