Security Clearance news
OPM Behind the Power Curve in Standing up the National Background Investigations Bureau
Back in January of this year OPM announced that it was standing up of a new agency, the National Background Investigations Bureau (NBIB), which would take over conducting background investigations from OPM’s Federal Investigative Services by October 2016 as a part of security clearance processing reforms. On August 23, 2016
Listing Criminal Charges with Adjudication Withheld on Your SF-86
A common mistake security clearance applicants make is in thinking that criminal charges filed against them resulting in the judge withholding adjudication do not have to be reported. This is not true, regardless of what advice a recruiter, friend, or solicitor may tell you. What does adjudication withheld actually mean?
It is still a baffling situation. You would hope the psychologist could sniff it out but it’s likely very difficult. At the same time.. I’d imagine some of the personality…
Rush holds a Top Secret/Secure Compartmented Information clearance, according to the FBI affidavit. But the agency alleges that beginning with Rush’s successful 2009 CIA job application, he fabricated academic and…
There was a case a few years back where an NSA employee was found to have dozens of boxes of classified documents at home. There was no indication that he…
The SF86 asks if you have attended any schools within the last 10 years but it then asks if you have received any degrees more than 10 years ago. You…