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
Was your Investigator DCSA or a CACI/Peraton/other contractor? This is sus based on the training I had. It could be a difference in policy or a lazy FI that didn’t…
I see. So the Investigator’s report is not the same as the actual interviews in the SSBI?
DCSA civilian. Their email has a .civ[@]mail.mil suffix. They seemed very sure of themselves, but yeah, fully possible they didn’t get properly trained. They did mention affidavits used to be…
bebe 1979: All the investigative interviews and record checks are chronicled in the investigative report, whether they are done by field investigators, letter inquiry, or computer linkage. If you’ve had…