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Lie detectors trip applicants at border agency
Published January 13, 2017 Associated Press
In this Dec. 3, 2014 file photo, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer checks under the hood of a car as it waits to enter the United States from Tijuana, Mexico through the San Ysidro port of entry in San Diego. Taking a polygraph became a hiring requirement at CBP in 2012 after a huge hiring surge led to more agents getting arrested for misconduct. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
In this Dec. 3, 2014 file photo, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer checks under the hood of a car as it waits to enter the United States from Tijuana, Mexico through the San Ysidro port of entry in San Diego. Taking a polygraph became a hiring requirement at CBP in 2012 after a huge hiring surge led to more agents getting arrested for misconduct. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) (Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
SAN DIEGO – David Kirk was a career Marine pilot with a top-secret security clearance and a record of flying classified missions. He was in the cockpit when President George W. Bush and Vice Presidents Dick Cheney and Joe Biden traveled around the nation's capital by helicopter.
With credentials like that, Kirk was stunned to fail a lie detector when he applied for a pilot's job with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which guards 6,000 miles of border with Mexico and Canada. After two contentious polygraph sessions that lasted a combined eight hours, Kirk said, he drove home "with my tail between my legs," wondering how things had gone so wrong.
Two out of three applicants to the CBP fail its polygraph, according to the agency -- more than double the average rate of eight law enforcement agencies that provided data to The Associated Press under open-records requests.
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