Polygraph cost me my internship

[polybunk]

I've been a polygrapher for a long time now.  You're experience doesn't sound very typical.  You must have had a bad examiner.

I guess I had a "bad examiner", too, as that isn't too off the mark from what happened to me... told repeatedly that I'm concealing drug use, when my entire experience with drugs was some pot 20 years ago.  But, of course, once they decide that the tea leaves say "Lie", the only possibility to placate them is to "give them more"... but if there's no more to give, how do you do that?  I told him I could make something up for him, except it would be a lie.

We spent hours on "drugs", even though my answer never changed, because it couldn't change.

[polybunk]

Polygraphers have come to this site in an attempt to educate.  Seems not to have sunk in.  Besides, we don't have to explain ourselves.  We've won the political-bureaucratic fight.  The test is here to stay.  

I won't waste my time doing the same.  Just stop whinning and get over it.  Sackett and Coffey were right.  Just one big "pity party" over here.

Then why is the poly not accepted in a single courtroom in the US, or any civilized country that I'm aware of?

[polybunk]

Could it just be that you didn't pass the test?  I mean really here people, you guys make it sound like nobody passes these things.  How can they have people working for them then?  Get off your little whiny butts and tell the truth next time.

And come on George.  You didn't pass.  You've dedicated your life to this.  What a waste.  Were the drugs really worth it?

I did tell the truth, and so far, they haven't decided to pass me.

Given a very specific question; "Have you used any drugs in the past two years?"  The answer is no.  No hemming, no hawing, no kinda-sortas.  Make it twenty years, and the answer is the same.  Yet the tea leaves say that's a lie.  The only way to "pass" is to cough up "facts" that aren't true.  How exactly does one do that?

[Bill_Brown]

Then why is the poly not accepted in a single courtroom in the US, or any civilized country that I'm aware of?

May I correct one miss-statement,

Polygraph has been admitted in numerous jurisdictions across the nation.  I have testified in several courts on polygraph and it was admissable.