Security Clearance Denial
Reasons why security clearance applications are rejected.
Denied or Revoked SCI Eligibility and Possible Impact on Your Collateral Clearance
Many security clearances holders who have Top Secret or Secret clearance eligibility (also known as collateral) are wary about applying for jobs that require Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access, especially when it requires a polygraph. The reason for this wariness is the unknown of what happens to their collateral clearance if
Navy Officer Convicted of Lying During Security Clearance Process
Lieutenant Fan Yang, a U.S. Navy Flight Officer, was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for his involvement in U.S. firearms export control violations, failure to report foreign national contacts, and making false statement during the security clearance process. Lt. Yang, who had a Top-Secret security clearance, conspired with a
Bad Memory Does Not Mitigate Viewing Child Pornography
One of the first cases of 2022 heard by the Defense Office of Hearing an Appeals (DOHA) involved an DoD contractor who had downloaded child pornography from 2006-10 and was interviewed about it by the FBI after they had seized his computer. The DoD CAF denied clearance eligibility, but that
Former Army CID Special Agent Found Guilty of Lying on SF-86C
to those that spin a web of lies or hide information.