Mike1234,

 Did the other agency know about the failed NSA poly ?
I was in a kind of different situaton, passing my poly,
but in adjudication limbo, and got cleared through a 
different Intel agency.  My advice, being an ex-NSA 
employee, would be to take the other offer, because
NSA can take up to a year, or more, to get people
through the polys and adjudication.  If you keep failing 
the polys, or get an outright rejection, it could affect
your clearance at the other agency.  You would be
staking your career on the damn poly, and it is simply
not worth it.  Also, to stay in SCI access, you would have
to keep passing the poly, every five years.  I have my
reasons, to stay clear of the NSA.  Also, if they have any
reasons to string you out, they can schedule you for
a "subject interview", instead, and that can take up to
a year (I know this for a fact, because it happened to
someone at my old company)...

mike1234 wrote on Mar 16^th, 2005 at 9:16am:


My advice to you, if you want to take the second job, is to withdraw your application with the NSA and not bother with the stress of a second poly.

NSA typically calls people back for multiple polygraphs.  It's just what they do.  Very likely there's no reason to "clear your record", since they've likely not come to any conclusions.