Security Clearance news
2014 Security Clearance Reform Efforts by Congress
Congressional lawmakers have been busy this year trying to push through several new changes to security clearance oversight and processes. As is usual in Washington politics, a number of proposals were generated to create the appearance that actual reform was the main goal. A recent article posted by Defenseone.com discussed
Illegal Drug Use is Mitigated: Clearance Granted
In another recent Defense Office of Hearing and Appeals (DOHA) case the board decided that the concerns about the applicant’s recreational illegal drug use over a ten-year period that spanned from 2001 to 2011 were mitigated. The applicant disclosed information detailing his recreational drug use from 2001 to 2011 that
I have been reassured by my agency that my EOD of 1/27 is locked in and nothing to worry about. My relocation funding was approved. So I’m assuming all is…
Have a back up plan in place. Reassurances are as easy to give as apologies.
Would be weird to have them pay for my move but then not let me start. But yeah, I could always keep working my remote job until whatever happens, blows…
Business as usual. Saber rattling, cage shaking, rhetoric…but both sides understand you can’t move the needle too much. It meanders all over, there is waste, some abuse…then the pendulum swings…