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Background Investigations

A background investigator calls you or shows up at your door and says they want to ask you some questions about someone you know. How do you know they are legit? The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Federal Investigations Service (FIS) provides oversight for the federal and contract investigators who

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Security Clearance Denial

Last July I wrote about what the top issues were that resulted in security clearances denials by the Defense Office of Hearing and Appeals (DOHA) Board which review industrial security clearance cases. Here are the final numbers on the 884 cases that were heard this year broken down by the

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Past Security Clearance Posts

Background InvestigationsObtaining Security Clearance

In testimony before congress in September the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Mike McConnell, announced that: We have  (in conjunction with DoD) designed a transformed…
Background InvestigationsObtaining Security Clearance

Since the first two threads we've started on obtaining answers to clearance questions have filled up, we are starting a new one. Please post questions…
Obtaining Security Clearance

An article in last week's Washington Post reported, "Maryland public schools will soon establish 'security clearance' educational programs for students as part of the state's…