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Security Clearance Denial

In a recent Department of Energy clearance denial appeal the judge turned the tables on the applicant’s argument that he misunderstood the questions on the SF-86 application as to why he didn’t disclose delinquent taxes, debts, and arrests. The issues in this case involved the applicant failing to file his taxes, getting

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Background InvestigationsSecurity Clearance Process

You were hired on for that dream job, flew through the background investigation process (well, maybe not really, but one can hope), and were granted a security clearance. What should you do now? I always recommend you request a copy of your own closed background investigation to keep for future

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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. …