Security Clearance news
What Will a Security Clearance Social Media Check Look Like?
A memo released by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper paves the way for social media checks to be used in the security clearance background investigation process. Any information searched must be related to the 13 adjudicative criteria, and must be information that is publicly available. A background investigator will
ODNI Issues Social Media Check Policy Guidance
Effective May 12, 2016 security clearance background investigations may include the collection and review of publicly available media information in determining eligibility for access to classified information. The long awaited policy release, Security Executive Agent Direction 5, gives the Federal government authority to implement these checks, however, it leaves it
clearedrob: Just 18 months of silence until… completed. That’s got to be longest I’ve heard of that didn’t involve a reinvestigation.
Yep. It started before RIF (I was told they were already short-staffed to begin with) then the shutdown.
yikes, what agencies? Hope DIA doesn’t take that long. The guy they just onboarded before me took 3 months so I’m hoping I’m almost there.
Nope i had zero break in access! I was working a cleared contract when they requested my access.