I had a brief affair with a foreign national while holding a secret clearance a few years ago. My spouse has known about the affair since it happened and we went through marriage counseling together. Since that time I left USG and my spouse has joined the military. He is currently upgrading his clearance and my affair was disclosed as part of the process. During the investigation, the a**hole I had the affair with lied and said I told him my spouse was abusive to me. I never said anything even remotely like that and my spouse has never been abusive in any way. The second time the individual was asked, he said something different. I haven’t even talked to this guy in a couple years. Now my spouse’s higher clearance is denied. The investigator may reach out to me but I don’t know. How can someone make false claims about his character like that and it be taken as truth? Is there something I can do?? My spouse didn’t deserve the hurt we caused him through the affair, and he certainly doesn’t deserve this. For the record, he has the greatest character and integrity of anyone you could hope to meet in your lifetime. There has to be something I can do.
Unfortunately, there is not much you can do until he gets a statement of reasons or if an investigator reaches out.
How do you know that was the reason he was denied?
My husband told me the investigator may be reaching out to me. And then he told me why after I pressed him. We’ve had a few people stay with us at post so I think they should be interviewed as well.
He’s already been denied? If so he will receive an SOR telling why and how to contest.
Seems like there are some missing pieces to this puzzle. I’m not an adjudicator, but it would be very unlikely that a clearance would be denied on the hearsay information of one source. It also sounds like the field work is still going on, meaning it hasn’t even reached an adjudicator for them to deny it.
Honestly it all goes back to what you did and it shouldn’t affect his security clearance unless he was involved somehow. Your personal choices unless you are leaving out details is the reason why he’s at risk at all. You have no right to be upset or annoyed that the guy you hooked up with decided to make up stories that’s what happens when you reach your level of dishonesty and betrayal. Hopefully all will work out in his favor and he’ll divorce you if he hasn’t already. Good luck!!