Those of you who have read my other posts know that I was an FBI false positive last year.
I have been scheduled for another polygraph test which a state law enforcement agency. I plan on telling my background investigator about my failed FBI polygraph, because I believe it is something they will dig up themselves anyway.
My concern however, is that I may be treated differently once the new polygrapher finds out that I once failed an FBI polygraph test. Has anyone had any similar experiences?
Should I use the complete honesty approach and tell them that after I failed my first poly I researched polygraphy and now know how it works? I am probably going to use this approach, but again I am concerned that the polygrapher may fail me purposely one he/she hears this.
Thanks
I think that my false positive with the FBI influenced the outcome of my later polygraph with the LAPD, where I had volunteered to serve as an unpaid "technical" reservist providing language support to the Anti-Terrorist Division. Details are provided in my personal statement (http://antipolygraph.org/statements/statement-003.shtml) on this website.
Mentioning that you have researched polygraphy, combined with your false positive result with the FBI, may very well lead your polygrapher to purposely "fail" you and/or accuse you of countermeasure use.
If you are contemplating joining the federal polygraph lawsuits (http://antipolygraph.org/litigation.shtml#zaid), this could actually help to prove career damage brought about as a consequence of the FBI's wrongful reliance on a technique that it knows is unreliable. If you haven't already done so, you might want to contact Mark Zaid in this regard.