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		<title>More Security Clearance Legislation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In February 2010 the U.S. House of Representatives passed their version (HR 2701) of the Intelligence Authorization Act for fiscal year 2010.  The Senate passed their version (S.1494) in September 2009.  Hopefully the two versions will be reconciled, passed by Congress, and sent to the President.
The House version creates an Ombudsman for Intelligence Community (IC) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/gettingupdating-a-clearance/more-security-clearance-legislation/</link>
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		<title>HSPD-12 PIV Card Problems at DHS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A February 17, 2010 article at Government Computer News reported that:
“The Homeland Security Department is nearly three years behind in getting Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards for its employees and contractors, according to a new report from DHS Inspector General Richard Skinner.”
Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (August 2004), Policy for a Common Identification Standard for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-news/hspd-12-piv-card-problems-at-dhs/</link>
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		<title>Problems Protecting Classified Information at Port Hueneme</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-news/problems-protecting-classified-information-at-port-hueneme/</link>
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		<title>Former Boeing Engineer Gets 15 Years For China Spying</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-news/former-boeing-engineer-gets-15-years-for-china-spying/</link>
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		<title>CIA&#8217;s Talent Retention Program?</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/chit-chat/cias-talent-retention-program/</link>
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		<title>Nidal Hasan’s Security Clearance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again the news media got it wrong. Referring to the Report of the DoD Independent Review Related to Fort Hood (Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort  Hood), an Associated Press article, claimed:
“Their investigation also found his top-level security clearance hadn&#8217;t been properly investigated.”
A WashingtonPost.com article stated:
“The report also said that Hasan was granted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-news/nidal-hasan-security-clearance/</link>
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		<title>Former FBI Contract Linguist Pleads Guilty to Leaking Classified Information to Blogger</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/gettingupdating-a-clearance/former-fbi-contract-linguist-pleads-guilty-to-leaking-classified-information-to-blogger/</link>
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		<title>Iran Saber-Rattling a Boon for U.S. Defense Firms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As seen on Time Magazine&#8217;s website. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been &#8220;the best recruiting officer&#8221; for U.S. military efforts to partner with Arab states over the past year. That&#8217;s according to General David Petraeus, who as commander of Centcom is responsible for overseeing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
What&#8217;s been good for Centcom has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/clearance-jobs/iran-saber-rattling-a-boon-for-u-s-defense-firms/</link>
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		<title>Summer Seminar for College Students Interested in Intelligence Community Careers</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-career-advice/summer-seminar-for-college-students-interested-in-intelligence-community-careers/</link>
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		<title>Single Agency for Australian Security Clearances</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On December 7, 2009 Psnews reported that the Government of Australian will consolidate the granting of all security clearances under their Department of Defence by October 2010.  Currently clearances are granted by more than 100 different agencies using 50 separate investigative service providers.
“The new approach is expected to save $5.3 million a year and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-news/single-agency-for-australian-security-clearances/</link>
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		<title>Quest to Speed up the Security Clearance Process Continues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The quest to speed up the security clearance process continues with several Senators introducing the Security Clearance Modernization and Reporting Act of 2009 yesterday.
Overall the bill&#8217;s goal is similar to the Executive Order 13467 President Bush signed in June 2008 and would codify many of those provisions.
An article in NextGov goes on to say that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/gettingupdating-a-clearance/the-quest-to-speed-up-the-security-clearance-process-continues/</link>
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		<title>DSS Alert on Foreign Passports</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On November 20, 2009 the Defense Security Service issued the following policy alert entitled, “Foreign Passport: Disposition Influences Personnel Clearance Eligibility.”
DISCO will not grant or continue a personnel clearance if the clearance applicant or cleared individual possesses a current foreign passport. In instances where the foreign passport is the sole potential disqualifying factor in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/gettingupdating-a-clearance/dss-alert-on-foreign-passports/</link>
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		<title>Falsification of Security Clearance Applications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Failure to provide truthful and candid answers during the security clearance process” is one of the most common reasons for the denial or revocation of security clearances.
Of the approximately 1,300 security clearance cases decided by Administrative Judges of the Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals (DOHA) during fiscal year 2008, Personal Conduct was the second [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/gettingupdating-a-clearance/falsification-of-security-clearance-applications/</link>
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		<title>The Impact of Delinquent Debt on Security Clearances</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/gettingupdating-a-clearance/the-impact-of-delinquent-debt-on-security-clearances/</link>
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		<title>Predicting Behavior</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-news/predicting-behavior/</link>
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		<title>FBI Applicant Processing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a September 15, 2009 written response to questions posed to the Director of the FBI following his March 25, 2009 appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee the following information was provided regarding FBI applicant clearance processing for fiscal year 2009 to date:




SPECIAL AGENT
APPLICANTS


PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT APPLICANTS



# Cases Received:
1,144

# Cases Received:
3,550


# Cases Discontinued:
838

# Cases Discontinued:
1,898


# Applicants [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-news/fbi-applicant-processing/</link>
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		<title>Social Networking: The Good, The Bad, &amp; The Ugly</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-news/social-networking-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly/</link>
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		<title>CIA Investing in Company to Monitor Your Blog and Tweets?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Per this new article on Wired, the CIA is using its relationship with In-Q-Tel to buy into a company called Visible Technologies. Visible Technologies is a software company that specializes in monitoring the social web, including Twitter, blogs, Facebook, YouTube, and others.
In-Q-Tel says it wants Visible to keep track of foreign social media, and give [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-news/cia-investing-in-company-to-monitor-your-blog-and-tweets/</link>
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		<title>OPM Submits New Version of SF86 for Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On September 30, 2009 the Federal Register announced that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has submitted a proposed revision of Standard Form 86 (SF86), Questionnaire for National Security Positions, for 30-day public review and comment.
The current version of the SF86 (July 2008) has only been in use for about a year and changed the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/gettingupdating-a-clearance/opm-submits-new-version-of-sf86-for-review/</link>
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		<title>2009 Security Clearance Salary Survey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2009 Security Clearance Salary Survey of 5,023 security-cleared job seekers conducted by ClearanceJobs.com has been released! See how you compare with your colleagues!

After you complete this short survey, you will be provided with the most current salary survey results in an 8 page [pdf] report for free!
Get the Security Clearance Salary Survey

  addthis_url [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-career-advice/2009-security-clearance-salary-survey/</link>
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