Security Clearance news
Personnel Security Teams Up With Clinicians to Address Mental Health Issues
The number of background investigations with psychological or mental health issues continue to rise and DoD personnel security adjudicators are having to collaborate with mental health professionals to evaluate the information. DoD’s Consolidated Adjudication Facility (DoD CAF) has staff psychologists available to consult with adjudicators and help review assessments completed
Illegal Drug Use – How Long of a Wait is Long Enough Before Applying for a Clearance?
Many on this forum have described their own personal history of illegal drug use and then ask for an opinion on how long they have to wait to have a chance at getting granted a security clearance. No one can answer that with certainty as many factors are involved and
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…