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The United Kingdom Security Clearance Vetting Process
The United Kingdom, one of our closest allies, conducts security vetting much in the same way as the U.S. does in granting security clearances, but there are some differences in terminology and level of inquiries. The Defense Business Services (DBS) National Security Vetting (NSV) branch is their equivalent of our
Clearance Denied for Pretending to Have a Clearance
In a rather unusual and interesting Defense Office of Hearing and Appeals (DOHA) case, the Statement of Reasons (SOR) issued to the individual cited Guideline K (Handling Protected Information) and Guideline E (Personal Conduct) as the disqualifiers in denying the clearance. Classified conference? Invite Only… The particular circumstances of this
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…