Security Clearance news
Update on DoD Continuous Evaluation Alert Statistics
Since getting on its feet in 2017, the VROC has received 81,260 Continuous Evaluation alerts. Here is the breakdown of the types of issues concerned:
Self-Defense Claim for Shooting Doesn’t Hold Water – Clearance Denied
Most states have laws where if you feel threatened – and are in fear of injury or death – you may use deadly force to defend yourself. Criminal defense attorneys use this argument to defend clients’ actions that may sometimes have exceeded the parameters of self-defense laws. In one of
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…