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Re: Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst

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90 days living there is the threshold. You wouldn’t make a good candidate for a national security job, not that it sounds like you want to be. Investigators would want to know who you’d been associating with at all those different places, and tracking it all down would take a long time ( the wait for the investigation can be years, the period during which you’d be unhireable for the job you were going after.)

The paradigm of a residence is much more fluid than many people think. I used to work on boats. For income tax purposes I was a BVI resident, for immigration purposes I was a US resident since I didn't have a residence permit in the BVI (not necessary for boat crew), for the purpose of immigration establishing a relationship with my future wife we did not - by their judgment - live together, or even in the same count…

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Re: Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst

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> but to believe everyone has thieved is disturbing. No, it's fact. It's part of learning and growing up. You never stole anything in your life, not a piece of candy, nothing?

I genuinely have no memory of doing that.

Convenient.

Re: Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst

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Everyone repeats this old canard but no one has any evidence even anecdotes to show that a polygraph machine is better than any other way to head fake someone in an interrogation

If people believe it , that's enough. It doesn't have to be good , it just has to mess with people enough .

It's dumber than that.

If the people telling the interviewers to use polygraphs believe the suspects will believe in polygraphs, it's enough.

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