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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is the government agency in charge of ensuring the safe use of radioactive materials used to benefit civilization, e.g., nuclear power plants. As you might imagine, the NRC Personnel Security Program runs a tight ship to ensure its’ cleared employees, contractors, and licensees are

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Security Clearance Denial

One of the first cases of 2022 heard by the Defense Office of Hearing an Appeals (DOHA) involved an DoD contractor who had downloaded child pornography from 2006-10 and was interviewed about it by the FBI after they had seized his computer. The DoD CAF denied clearance eligibility, but that

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Past Security Clearance Posts

Security Clearance Denial

Guideline G: Alcohol Consumption is one of the grayer areas when it comes to evaluating a person’s character, reliability and trustworthiness and deciding whether to…
Adjudication

The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) has the ability to provide e-Adjudication shared services to other agencies for Tier 1, Tier 3 and Tier…
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Polygraph

Last month the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released a revised Security Executive Agent Directive (SEAD) 2: Use of Polygraph in Support of…