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Obtaining Security Clearance

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It is highly recommended for security clearance applicants and current clearance holders to review their online digital footprint. This ensures anything they may have posted when they were young and foolish, under the influence of alcohol or drugs, or engaged in an unhealthy relationship that ended poorly with revenge photos

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Security Clearance Denial

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This particular Defense Office of Hearing and Appeals (DOHA) case was certainly an interesting read just because of the audacity of the applicant in thinking he could keep a security clearance in the first place. The Department of Defense initially granted him eligibility in 2018. In May 2021 he completed

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Discussing: Paragon Investigations - Stay far away!
investigator721

Any truth to the rumors that all remaining DCSA investigators were forced to go work for CANDA or be laid off?

PIPSr

I was not forced to go to Canda. It was a choice. There was no pressure whatsoever. And, I made the choice to go to Canda.

PIPSr

And, there are still DCSA investigators at Paragon.

investigator721

Thanks for the update! My source is spouting nonsense then.

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