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Criminal Conduct and Security Clearances
An article posted on ClearanceJobs.com on 26 Jan 09 focuses on the relevance and effect of criminal conduct on security clearances. The Adjudicative Guidelines states that Criminal activity creates doubt about a person’s judgment, reliability and trustworthiness. By its very nature, it calls into question a person’s ability or willingness
Ask Your Clearance Questions – Part 18
Our popular ongoing series allows you to ask your most complex questions regarding security clearances and our regular contributors of present and former clearance investigators and adjudicators will try to answer them. The rules are listed below. Failure to abide by them will mean your question will be deleted. NOTE:
FBI on a Hiring Blitz
This year, the FBI is hoping to add almost a thousand new special agents and around two thousand support staff on a large hiring blitz. Think you got what it takes to be an agent? Of a large number of candidates enter the FBI training academy, only a few make
Obama Taps Raytheon VP for #2 Defense Post
President-elect Barack Obama appointed a defense contractor’s lobbyist Thursday to become the No. 2 official at the Defense Department, a choice that appeared to break with his self-imposed rules to keep lobbyists at arm’s length. William J. Lynn III, Obama’s choice for deputy defense secretary, is a former Pentagon official