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I've no idea why I read to the end of that, seems like a long ramble, I kept expecting something to happen and it never did.

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He is a good writer. I also read to end and my attention span isn't good! I think the switching between what happened, what he felt and just the plain "daily WTF" rediculousness of the situations is what kept me locked in.

>He is a good writer.

I assumed the author was a she…

The title is "A CIA Analyst Shares Her Polygraph Experience" so it appears you are correct. I'd assumed incorrectly, so appreciate the discussion!

You should. Men drop their guards in front of women, especially old women. I expect a lot of active agents in the field look like/are grandmas for this reason.

Every person i inhabitate his or her views in writting becomes a copy of me so she is a he for the time of me reading.

"One of the most evil organizations in the world responsible for untold human misery treats its employees and applicants badly :( :( :("

That was all that was in there. Just complaining from someone that was salty they might have missed their chance at playing with the infant annihilator gun in South America.

This was how I felt about reading War and Peace

It made me cringe at how boot-licking the author, and apparently a lot of people at the CIA, are (like defending the “petty thief” not getting the job).

People will work for one of the most evil organizations in the world and expect pity for being interrogated, while that same organization has torture sites.

And they were the happiest years of her life!

Fond memories of planning the assassination of a politician in South America and creating popular unrest through a disinformation campaign in China :,)

tl;dr: polygraphs aren't reliable and can be misused?

It's not that they're unreliable, they simply don't work in the first place.

The misuse is that they're used at all.

It’s a prop to conduct an adversarial interrogation without the same stigma.

And they are performed interrogation style but cannot be refused without risking your career.

OTOH, someone arrested can (probably should?) refuse.

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