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Security Clearance Denial

In a previous post “Financial Issues Still the Biggest Reason for a Clearance Denial” I explained what the adjudicative guidelines stated regarding concerns about financial issues and ways for applicants to provide mitigation. Yet, it still seems almost every day we get comments or questions on the site from applicants

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Security Clearance Denial

It may be surprising to a lot of people in the United States that Israel is listed by the U.S. Department of State as a designated country and has export control and ITAR restrictions and sanctions are in place due to concerns about missile technology theft and other issues. Isn’t Israel

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Past Security Clearance Posts

Background Investigations

A class action lawsuit has been filed in the state of California against a private company that contracts with the federal government to provide background…
Cybersecurity

The Defense Security Service (DSS) has released its annual unclassified report titled Targeting U.S. Technologies, A Trend Analysis of Reporting from Defense Industry, for Fiscal…
Security Clearance Jobs

Hello all, Here's your gift...Early next year (by end of  Q1 hopefully) we plan to release a new look and new functionality to this blog. …