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Based on historical Defense Office of Hearing and Appeals (DOHA) cases, it would be a good bet that one of the first cases for this year involved financial issues. The DoD Central Adjudication Facility (CAF) issued this applicant a Statement of Reasons (SOR) regarding her $212,000 in delinquent student loans

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All clearance holders receive an initial security briefing thatincludes going over the proper handling and storage of classifieddocuments. This is a hot topic lately with the discovery of classifieddocuments at high level current and former political figures. I ranacross a case study from 2021 about a former U.S. Air Forcecontractor,

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