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> I wish my problem were as simple as Natalie's. I've spent almost my entire
> career working in the intelligence community. Almost everything I wrote was
> classified, so I cannot provide writing samples.
>
(snip)
> Anybody got any ideas as to how I might get around that one???
"I could show you my writing samples, but then I'd have to kill you."
;-)
Since you say "almost everything" was classified, something wasn't. Show
that and describe the rest: "Wrote a classified document that used blah
blah blah to do blah blah blah..." and hope for the best.