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Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst

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#81
> As we walked across the lobby, I thought I was going to faint.

I sort of detest people who always ask if things are ai slop, but... is this real? This guy has been working with a clearance for years - i think decades - and taken multiple polygraph, including failures, and is gonna pass out on his way to an interview regarding somewhere he no longer works?

Maybe hes just on the spectrum, but this article is weird.

Re: Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst

#82
post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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#84

> but I wondered why a petty thief thought she could get into the Agency. It’s reassuring to know no one at the CIA has ever done anything wrong, like stealing fifty dollars.

I remember hearing you can't even get government clearance if you admit you have ever smoked weed. Incredible

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#85
post #40

I watched at Derbycon multiple times someone that could make a polygraph test do whatever he wanted, otherwise he was a murderer that murdered himself and it all happened before he was born. The test was being administered by a long time veteran polygraph operator who had recently retired.

I don't know what that means, because a polygraph by design tells the polygrapher whatever they want it to.

I believe it was the subject of the test who could make the polygraph reading show whatever they wanted, even though it was being administered by an experienced operator.

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#86
post #9

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.

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…

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#89
post #42

The guy trying to work for the psychological torture club got psychologically tortured a little? My heart bleeds for him

What do the people writing these kinds of comments think the CIA is? There are mustache-twirling villains there, in greater proportion than in other government organizations, but the median CIA employee sits at a desk and translates cables from Farsi to English and back again, or keeps track of the rainfall in Azerbaijan. A very small fraction of the agency does anything more "interesting" than that, and the majority…

It's not about mustache twirling villains though is it. There are also a large number of people there who sit at desks and handle the logistics of moving people who are entitled either to be treated as PoWs or to a fair trial, into countries where they can be tortured while preserving a facade of it not being done by the agency itself.

Re: Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst

#90

> As we walked across the lobby, I thought I was going to faint. I sort of detest people who always ask if things are ai slop, but... is this real? This guy has been working with a clearance for years - i think decades - and taken multiple polygraph, including failures, and is gonna pass out on his way to an interview regarding somewhere he no longer works? Maybe hes just on the spectrum, but this article is weird.

I’m under the impression this was written by a woman. Obviously could be either gender, but it "fits better" if you read it from a female perspective.

> I left only because I got married and had a baby.

> I was so frustrated, I started to cry.

> As we walked across the lobby, I thought I was going to faint.

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