Hey everyone. I got contacted today to schedule separate appointments for both a psych and poly this morning. I had two offers with two separate IC agencies earlier this year, and I have already gone through the investigative process (including poly) the first agency.
Unfortunately, I was given a flat out clearance denial last May for drug use, foreign influence, and personal conduct under SEAD 4 guidelines. I underestimated the amount of times I smoked marijuana during my time of using it from 2016 to 2022. I also mentioned during the poly a couple of people I thought might not be US citizens but I knew have lived in the US their entire lives (later found out they WERE US citizens.) As for mitigations for everything, I am simply allowing time to play its role as well as not surrounding myself with potential foreign contacts or people who smoke marijuana. Nothing else I can really do at the moment, regardless of the dozens of people the investigators interviewed regarding my abstinence with any sort of illicit drug. I will not go into detail about it here since I have already made some posts about it when it happened. You can read the posts listed for more specific details:
My question is, should I even bother at all going through the whole polygraph process at all? It is most likely EXTREMELY likely I will be denied because of the clearance denial. It doesn’t seem like its really worth going through the hassle of flying in just to be immediately booted because of a clearance denial that isn’t even a year old. I also haven’t had an opportunity to update my SF86 with the clearance denial because I submitted it in the middle of the investigation for my 2nd offer. AFAIK, I can’t submit a proper update to include this important info until I have my interview with an investigator (if it even gets to that point at all).
Any suggestions? Is it best to rescind my offer?