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	<title>Security Clearance Jobs Blog &#187; Eric Pecinovsky</title>
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		<title>State and local law enforcement officers increasingly getting top secret clearances</title>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-news/state-and-local-law-enforcement-officers-increasingly-getting-top-secret-clearances/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pecinovsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article in USA Today says more state and local law enforcement officers are getting top secret clearances from the FBI to access sensitive federal information in terrorism cases than at anytime since 9/11.
Clearances granted to members of the FBI&#8217;s  network of regional terrorism task forces jumped to 878 in 2009, up from  [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Drugs (Medical Marijuana) and Security Clearances</title>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-career-advice/drugs-medical-marijuana-and-security-clearances/</link>
		<comments>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-career-advice/drugs-medical-marijuana-and-security-clearances/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pecinovsky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ClearanceJobsTV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cleared Career Advice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[defense contractors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A story on 10News in San Diego highlighted a 32 year-old man who held a security clearance and was working at a Defense Contractor.  He was let go from his job after a random drug test, which was preceded by his disclosure to a co-worker that he had a medical marijuana prescription for his depression.
Under [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Altegrity (USIS) Buys Kroll</title>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/chit-chat/altegrity-usis-buys-kroll/</link>
		<comments>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/chit-chat/altegrity-usis-buys-kroll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pecinovsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article in the Washington Post reported that Altegrity, a privately held Falls Church, VA company that provides security/screening services, will buy Kroll from Marsh &#38; McLennan Cos. for $1.13 billion in cash.
Altegrity was started in 1996 when the federal government privatized  the investigative branch of the Office of Personnel Management. The  company [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cleared Hot: Security Clearances are in Demand</title>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-career-advice/cleared-hot-security-clearances-are-in-demand/</link>
		<comments>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-career-advice/cleared-hot-security-clearances-are-in-demand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 20:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pecinovsky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cleared Career Advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security Clearance Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clearancejobs.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cybersecurity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The MilitaryTimes Edge recently published a great article on security clearance jobs.  Yes, we were mentioned and the Director of ClearanceJobs, Evan Lesser, was interviewed;  so there is a bit of self promotion here.      Honestly, though, it is a very thorough, informative article on security clearance jobs.  A very good read.  Here&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Defense Finance Agency Suspends Credit-Related Firings</title>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/chit-chat/defense-finance-agency-suspends-credit-related-firings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/chit-chat/defense-finance-agency-suspends-credit-related-firings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pecinovsky</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Investigations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[background check]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At first, it looked like 62 workers at Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS)’s military payroll accounting facility in Cleveland, Ohio would lose their jobs due to credit problems.  In the past, other DFAS workers in Columbus and Indianapolis had lost jobs because of credit issues.  The Cleveland facility processes pay for active Navy [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>State Dept Official Accused of Mishandling Top Secret Docs</title>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-news/state-dept-official-accused-of-pocketing-top-secret-docs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-news/state-dept-official-accused-of-pocketing-top-secret-docs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pecinovsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. State Department is investigating an employee with top-secret security clearance who government investigators say mishandled classified information related to national security, according to an article on FoxNews.com.
&#8220;Eugene Reginald Hopson, a 30-year veteran of the State Department, described as an information management officer, oversaw the handling and security of classified information in U.S. embassies.
He [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Problems Protecting Classified Information at Port Hueneme</title>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-news/problems-protecting-classified-information-at-port-hueneme/</link>
		<comments>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-news/problems-protecting-classified-information-at-port-hueneme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pecinovsky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cleared News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article in the Ventura County Star reports that Port Hueneme Navy officials didn&#8217;t trust a security manager to keep classified information safe.  The security manager for the Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center at Port Hueneme in 2008 was gone after 10 months on the job and put on administrative leave without pay.
The security manager, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Former Boeing Engineer Gets 15 Years For China Spying</title>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-news/former-boeing-engineer-gets-15-years-for-china-spying/</link>
		<comments>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-news/former-boeing-engineer-gets-15-years-for-china-spying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pecinovsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you ever bring 300,000 pages of sensitive (i.e. aerospace and defense technologies) documents home to write a book without informing anyone, including your company? Me neither.  A former Boeing engineer says that&#8217;s all he was doing.  He was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison earlier this week.   He was convicted of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>CIA&#8217;s Talent Retention Program?</title>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/chit-chat/cias-talent-retention-program/</link>
		<comments>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/chit-chat/cias-talent-retention-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pecinovsky</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article in POLITICO this morning is an interesting tale. Apparently, the CIA is offering their operatives to the private sector.  The work they perform is not on &#8220;government time&#8221;, but as a side gig.   When I first saw this story, I thought it would be agents consulting along the lines of  corporate physical [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Former FBI Contract Linguist Pleads Guilty to Leaking Classified Information to Blogger</title>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/gettingupdating-a-clearance/former-fbi-contract-linguist-pleads-guilty-to-leaking-classified-information-to-blogger/</link>
		<comments>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/gettingupdating-a-clearance/former-fbi-contract-linguist-pleads-guilty-to-leaking-classified-information-to-blogger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pecinovsky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cleared News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FBI released a statement and politico reported that a former FBI contract linguist pleaded guilty to unlawfully providing classified documents to the host of an Internet blog who then published information derived from those documents on the blog.
Shamai Kedem Leibowitz, a.k.a., Samuel Shamai Leibowitz, 39, of Silver Spring, Maryland, pleaded guilty in federal court [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Summer Seminar for College Students Interested in Intelligence Community Careers</title>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-career-advice/summer-seminar-for-college-students-interested-in-intelligence-community-careers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-career-advice/summer-seminar-for-college-students-interested-in-intelligence-community-careers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pecinovsky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cleared Career Advice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Office of the Director of National Intelligence announced last week regarding their 2nd Annual Summer Seminar for College Students interested in Intelligence Community careers.
They will again offer about 40 highly motivated graduate students and college seniors an opportunity to study with currently serving intelligence analysts and other experts. The National Security Analysis &#38; Intelligence [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Impact of Delinquent Debt on Security Clearances</title>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/gettingupdating-a-clearance/the-impact-of-delinquent-debt-on-security-clearances/</link>
		<comments>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/gettingupdating-a-clearance/the-impact-of-delinquent-debt-on-security-clearances/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pecinovsky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cleared Career Advice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amid growing unemployment, foreclosure and delinquency rates are spiking.  We thought it would be a good time to revisit how a person&#8217;s personal financial situation can affect their  security clearance.
A sampling of Defense Office of Hearing and Appeals (DOHA) security clearance hearings showed (in 2007, just when the recession was taking hold) that about 50% [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Predicting Behavior</title>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-news/predicting-behavior/</link>
		<comments>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-news/predicting-behavior/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pecinovsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at the Newsweek blog, Declassified, Mark Hosenball explored the recent events at Fort Hood and the role the security-clearance procedures played or didn&#8217;t play.
According to Wayne Hall, a spokesman at Army HQ at the Pentagon, everyone who receives a commission as a U.S. Army officer has to undergo a security investigation, which qualifies him [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Social Networking: The Good, The Bad, &amp; The Ugly</title>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-news/social-networking-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-news/social-networking-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pecinovsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Secretary Gates said the &#8220;freedom of communication and the nature of it is a huge strategic asset for the United States&#8230;there are clearly a number of governments, around the world, that try to control these communications&#8230;but these governments &#8220;can&#8217;t draw the net tight enough to stop everything&#8221;&#8230;
However, the DOD also warns against the dark side [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Teleworking Speed Up the Security Clearance Process?</title>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/clearance-jobs/did-teleworking-speed-up-the-security-clearance-process/</link>
		<comments>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/clearance-jobs/did-teleworking-speed-up-the-security-clearance-process/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pecinovsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week during the Telework Exchange Town Hall Meeting, OPM Director John Berry credited the approx. 5,000 investigators who worked from home in reducing the average time needed for a security clearance investigation from a year in &#8216;01 to 37 days.
The Department of Defense (DoD) had the greatest number (16,871)  of employees teleworking. Although cybersecurity [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>The DoD, Johns Hopkins, and a Canadian</title>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/gettingupdating-a-clearance/the-dod-johns-hopkins-and-a-canadian/</link>
		<comments>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/gettingupdating-a-clearance/the-dod-johns-hopkins-and-a-canadian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pecinovsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When your job responsibilities include overseeing nearly $1 billion in research for the Missile Defense Agency, Department of Homeland Security, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and other intelligence agencies, the chances are you&#8217;re going to need security clearance to get a peek inside.
The Applied Physics Lab at Johns Hopkins University is overseen by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Department Interns Wait and Wait For Security Clearance</title>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/gettingupdating-a-clearance/state-department-interns-wait-and-wait-for-security-clearance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/gettingupdating-a-clearance/state-department-interns-wait-and-wait-for-security-clearance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pecinovsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article in the National Journal covers a security clearance process that is painfully slow at the State Department. For entry level employees at the State Department, especially interns, start dates are moved back waiting for a security clearance.
In most cases, the State Department outsources investigations to contractors, however, when an applicant has lived or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-CIA Investigator Pleads Guilty to False Statements</title>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-news/ex-cia-investigator-pleads-guilty-to-false-statements/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pecinovsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier blog post it was mentioned that OPM chose to prosecute six investigators to send a message to potential offenders that they can face felony charges and jail time, instead of just being fired.  Is this part of that message?
A former Central Intelligence Agency investigator pleaded guilty today to fabricating about 80 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Week in Defense News</title>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-career-advice/this-week-in-defense-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pecinovsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our very own Evan Lesser aka &#8220;admin&#8221; made an appearance last Sunday on This Week in Defense News where he discusses the pay gap between civilian and government employees with security clearances.


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		<title>Security Clearance Anxiety</title>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/gettingupdating-a-clearance/security-clearance-anxiety/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Pecinovsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the economic downturn and entering the seventh year of overseas combat, some Soldiers and civilians are worried about their security clearance.
The commander of the U.S. Army Central Personnel Security Clearance Facility (CCF) wants all Army personnel to understand that &#8220;they can obtain counseling services for financial and mental health issues without undue concern of [...]]]></description>
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