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Re:Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst by grkvlt on Sunday October 07, 2018 @05:05PM (#18162605)
By leveraging the fact that one is a UK citizen, and applying to SIS or GCHQ, I assume? Most other countries perform in-depth background checks, rather than relying on pseudo-science, when it comes to matters of national security.
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Re:Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst by ganoushoreilly on Sunday October 07, 2018 @06:24PM (#18162936)
The background investigations are still performed, the poly is an additional layer added on, so that's the only real formal difference between countries.
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Re:Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst by MrMorden on Sunday October 07, 2018 @10:17PM (#18163718)
I really want to believe that polygraphs are just used as an interrogation tool and not as a substitute for the SSBI. But the FBI gave Nada Nadim Prouty an SCI clearance even though she wasn't even lawfully present in the US, let alone a citizen. She was working for CIA when the next investigation was due, and they didn't have a problem either.
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