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I know of one person, at my former company, who was denied by NSA, and ended up getting cleared through the NRO, in Reston, Va. If you didn't admit to anything horrible, then your DoD clearance will probably be ok - just be honest with the DoD folks, or they will deny you on "personal conduct". I used to feel bad, about my situation at the NSA, but now I no longer care, and I am much happier dealing with other agencies. The NSA is a really dysfunctional place to work - people with unresolved anger/issues, inappropriateness, etc. To give you an example, one of my old assistant work-center chiefs had a beef with his boss; their desks were next to each other, so very early one morning, he came in, before his boss, and kept slamming his chair against his boss's desk screaming, "get the f--- out of my face". I came very close to calling the NSA police.
Funny thing, after all my years there, I never figured out what all the fuss was about - too many people, reading too many Tom Clancey books !
Posted by: NSAreject Posted on: Mar 12th, 2005 at 11:25pm
Well, that is the beauty of the NSA polygraph; it cannot be reviewed or challenged. I was a former employee, going for reinstatement, and was put into adjudication limbo. Depending on what you admitted to, during the poly, you may have lost your chance of getting a DoD clearance, or having an existing clearance pulled. I bet you were not informed of this dilemma. I lucked out, and quit my company (therefore, stopping the process), before they had a chance to deny me (although, they didn't have enough to), and got cleared through a different (and alot more sane) Intel agency. I'll have nothing to do with them again. The NSA poly is just a ruse to deny people, who they are not sure of... a bunch of crap. Now that you have a denial, for your special access SCI, if you apply for a DoD clearance, you will have to put it down on your SF-86 form, and explain it to the investigators.