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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

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Security Clearance Denial

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

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Security Clearance Process

In January the Smith Amendment was repealed and replaced by Bond Amendment prohibiting all federal agencies from granting or renewing any security clearance for a…
Background InvestigationsObtaining Security Clearance

Our popular ongoing series allows you to ask your most complex questions regaring security clearances and our regular contributors of present and former clearance investigators…
Security Clearance Process

A February 18, 2009 article at BusinessWire reported that ATS Corporation (ATSC) was awarded a new $6 million contract with the Defense Security Service (DSS)…