Security Clearance news
Time Alone does not Mitigate a Long History of Criminal Conduct
The adjudicative guidelines use mitigating factors in making security clearance determinations. One of those factors is the amount of time elapsed since the conduct occurred. In rare instances even administrative judges get it wrong in applying mitigating factors, which is exactly what happened in a security clearance appeal last month. The Defense
Scams Artists from China Target Unwitting Security Clearance Applicants
I have noticed an uptick in the number of Defense Office of Hearing an Appeals (DOHA) cases involving security clearance applicants who unwittingly fell for scams involving foreign nationals from China. How does this happen? Here are two actual DOHA case scenarios: This security clearance applicant meets a Chinese woman online in
Good Luck. You are wasting your time contacting a Congressman. Senator Van Hollen was told to pound sand when an OIG investigation disappeared regarding the destruction of evidence for a…
One of the issues I’ve seen: you have an open investigation, unresolved, finished, adjudicated. No other agency knows what has been scoped, are there any issues, etc I’ve seen agencies…
Not really…unless they let you work while waiting. Any investigation sitting out there with unadjudicated info…can stop other investigations
This agency has a standard policy of only allowing 3 poly fails before revoking your conditional access. It’s a suitability thing related to your SCI and congresspeople will not be…