Security Clearance news
A Good Employment Record Does Not Mitigate Security Clearance Issues
Time and time again I read security clearance appeal cases where the applicant brings in supervisors or co-workers to testify on their behalf as to what a good worker they are to recommend getting a security clearance granted or reinstated. Although this is a factor in looking at the “whole
State Department Employee Caught Selling Classified Information to Adversary
The Department of Justice published a press release outlining an investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) involving a Department of State (DoS) employee with a Top-Secret security clearance who was selling sensitive and classified information to someone who turned out to be working for the People’s Republic
You’re mixing up two different things: what is legal everywhere vs. what the U.S. government can hold its cleared personnel accountable for. Security clearances aren’t a “follow only local laws”…
Personal Conduct guideline needs to have boundaries set. The government will abuse that guideline to deny a clearance if the government doesn’t like that person. Some of things that are…
Yup, they denied me on petty nonsense , because i shared a “naughty” pic with a girl i was seeing and because i got in an argument defending guys i…
My mind goes to “if you have to ask, you can’t afford it”