> My father did go the clearance route, and when I asked him about the polygraph he told me he confessed things to the interviewers he would never have told my

> My father did go the clearance route, and when I asked him about the polygraph he told me he confessed things to the interviewers he would never have told my mother. And this is exactly the problem, people make stuff up all of the time under stress. > Of course it is, but that is a misunderstanding that what you're watching is a real performance. This is not the value. The value is that the polygraph is that its an end-run around employment law. You can't use a polygraph on a general employee to fire them nor can you fire them for many of things that they ask in a polygraph interview. However you can revoke their clearance and fire them for not having a clearance.