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A Typical Day for a Background Investigation Adjudicator
Adjudicators must be decisive and efficient critical thinkers to make quality adjudicative decisions and meet timeliness standards, ensuring mission readiness and risk mitigation. They require a strong knowledge of the policies and procedures that govern adjudications and need to be able to efficiently review a subject’s case, identify the information
Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Involvement Leads to Clearance Revocation
An interesting Defense Office of Hearing and Appeals (DOHA) case caught my eye because it involved a DoD contractor who had his security clearance revoked for being a member of what the Federal Government calls an Outlaw Motorcycle Gang (OMG). Even more unusual, in his initial appeal to a DoD
I have had this happen to me on more than one occasion. I had the acceptable level of eligibility for access for a job at an IC and when I…
Perhaps the justification that IC agencies use for a new SF86, investigation, and poly, are for a suitability review, and not access to classified information. Suitability has always been the…
Vanilla_Spice22: I was told to fill out another SF-86 This is pretty standard. The contractor can’t hang on to these things anymore, they pass them to the customer who does…
Vanilla_Spice22: If you want job, you cooperate and comply with any reasonable request made by the hiring agency, including filling out a new SF86, even if the request violates reciprocity…