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FBI Says It Will Hire No One Who Lies About Illegal Downloading

Posted by timothy on from the could-make-for-some-lonely-offices dept.

wabrandsma writes with this excerpt from The State Hornet, the student newspaper at Sacramento State On Monday, Sacramento State's Career Center welcomed the FBI for an informational on its paid internship program where applications are now being accepted. One of the highly discussed topics in the presentation was the list of potential traits that disqualify applicants. This list included failure to register with selective services, illegal drug use including steroids, criminal activity, default on student loans, falsifying information on an application and illegal downloading music, movies and books. FBI employee Steve Dupre explained how the FBI will ask people during interviews how many songs, movies and books they have downloaded because the FBI considers it to be stealing. During the first two phases of interviews, everything is recorded and then turned into a report. This report is then passed along to a polygraph technician to be used during the applicant's exam, which consists of a 55-page questionnaire. If an applicant is caught lying, they can no longer apply for an FBI agent position. (Left un-explored is whether polygraph testing is an effective way to catch lies.)

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  1. Polygraph by thetagger · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The polygraph, along with IQ tests, are a very American forms of superstition.

    1. Re:Polygraph by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The polygraph, along with IQ tests, are a very American forms of superstition.

      Yeah, quite a few hipsters that got less than ideal IQs go out of their way at every opportunity to deride the single most precise intellectual measure known to man.

  2. Re:Fewer candidates to draw from... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The FBI is a federal law enforcement agency. Their mission is to enforce federal law.

  3. So... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Am I out of consideration if I refer to the polygraph as 'truth dowsing' while it is being administered? How about asking if it can detect witches?

  4. The irony is off the charts by sideslash · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The FBI and other TLAs are constantly engaged in illegal downloading of the private information of Americans. How ironic that they're so anxious to recruit only people who have never committed the very types of "crimes" they're being hired to do. What, do they find it cheaper to train beginners than to hire someone already experienced in the job? (I wish this post was purely a joke.)

    1. Re:The irony is off the charts by mike449 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      They are looking for people who will do anything their superiors tell them to do. This particular bit is about finding people who don't do stuff the authorities declare illegal. This is all about obedience, not about "not doing illegal stuff".

  5. Re:FBI has no clue by bughunter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No. It will dwindle to include only young sociopaths who can fool a lie detector.

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  6. Re:Ok, but by Guspaz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So basically the FBI is only hiring people over the age of 50?

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    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  8. Re:yes, they people who follow the law/ rules by king+neckbeard · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oddly enough, they seem to ignore all the rules about constitutional limits to their powers, except perhaps for telling a lawyer so he can spin a way that it can be argued to not be breaking the law. Failing that, he'll find a way to pin it on somebody unimportant or already in hot water. And then there's just run of the mill corruption, abuse, and incompetence. They seem to select for a particular mindset far more than they select for moral superiority and genuine respect for law.

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  9. They may still hire you by Etherwalk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Then they won't hire you.

    They may hire you if you did something illegal and are honest about it. They will not hire you if you did something illegal and lied about it.

  10. Ironic. by Vellmont · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The FBI doesn't want its agents to lie, or default on student loans (the latter is often simply a matter of economics, not honesty), but yet the Snowden documents reveal that the FBI commits perjury in federal court to hide the true, illegal sources of information they got from the NSA. Described here, http://www.alexaobrien.com/sec... Search for "Parallel Construction"

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