Security Clearance news
Contractor Asserts DOHA Judge Was Biased in Denying Her Appeal
A Defense Office of Hearing and Appeals (DOHA) case caught my eye because it is related to all of the recent protests across the United States advocating fair treatment and respect for all. This applicant had previously held a security clearance for 12 years and has worked as a federal
DHS Personnel Security Program Updates
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Personnel Security Program is run out of the Office of the Chief Security Officer (OCSO) and is one of the biggest after DoD, responsible for processing all types of investigations on federal employees and industry contractors for the various sub-components of DHS. The OCSO
Polygraphs shouldn’t be allowed. Period. They are not reliable. This is why they are not admissible in a court of law. From what I have read here, they seem to…
Agreed on that, many people are just naturally anxious when having to answer questions about their personal lives. I know of one case where a Farsi linguist who had TS/SCI…
The security clearance process could be enhanced and streamlined at zero cost (indeed with a lowering of costs) by heeding the advice of the National Research Council and scrapping the…
I think that nobody should be polygraphed for any purpose. Polygraphy is a thoroughly discredited pseudoscience, and it is easily defeated through the use of simple and effective countermeasures that…