Polygraph Policy

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Indeed, Mr Rosano.  I respectfully agree, especially with your last 
statement.  At the risk of being simplistic, I think that certain 
heads and administrators want to outsource the job of evaluating and 
making judgements as much as possible to the machines so that they 
don't have to do it themselves.  And the less that they have to do it 
themselves, the more that their behinds, of course, are covered. 
(What on earth would we be paying these people for then?  Anyway.)

Best

Carina Flores

Rocco R Rosano <prosano at insight.rr.com> wrote:
John, et al,

I don't believe this is the real question.

The great adversary of CI and HUMINT are in the concepts of
cost-effectiveness and the appearance of performance efficiencies. CI
and security, like most of the government, has been under the gun to
demonstrate these attributes in the face of the ever shrinking budget
allocations. The poly, like SIGINT is much easier to quantify and much
more acceptable to penny pinching leadership that would replace the
human elements necessary for effective investigations and intelligence
operations with technical means.

Penny pinching leaders, in the overzealous strive to attain greater
efficiencies, do not care about "false positives" or "false negatives."
By the time these discoveries are made, they will be long gone. The
dehumanization of CI/Security and HUMINT has already been felt on a
number of different levels. The FBI has been penetrated by both the
Chinese and the Soviets for the better part of two decades, some one
with access to the State Department planted the CSD in the Conference
Room, and the recent infiltrations by the Middle Eastern interests at
GITMO were not accomplished through technical means. The over reliance
on the poly is a sign of extremely bad management.

Very Respectfully
Rocco Rosano

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