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Security Clearance Denial

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The year has passed and with all of the changes in the background investigation and security clearance realm it seems apt to label 2019 as the year of clearance and investigation reform.

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Security Clearance Process

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Insider threat, leakers, and counterintelligence concerns have led to changes in the way security clearance holders are vetted and monitored. Reinvestigations have gone by the wayside and continuous vetting (CV) is now the way forward. One would think the same CV standards would apply to all clearance holders, whether they

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Call from NSA today
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Low case loads/decrease in work
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Anxious about clearance
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TS Clearance, Lied/Omission on SF86 but came clean at interview
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Something came up in your background search for clearance
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TS with new job
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Extended Hiring Freeze - Pulse Check
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Pay Attention to the EVER Questions on the S-86
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“The Anti-Polygraph Debate”
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Secret Eligibility
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Discussing: Call from NSA today
Vanilla_Spice22

By “sharing explicit pics with a girl I was seeing,” how long ago was this? Time is a mitigator and if this all happened 8 years ago, it should be…

bebe1979

The problem with it all is that it is the exact same issue CIA denied me for 6 yrs after the issue occurred. CIA and NSA seem to not care…

Vanilla_Spice22

If you can afford it, then I would recommend you go talk to an attorney. When consulting with my attorney, he has said that NRO, NSA, and CIA are the…

bebe1979

Yeah thanks, I’m still waiting on SOR so i can have an attorney respond.

Past Security Clearance Posts

Background Investigations

At the tail-end of a recent Security Clearance Podcast, we asked ClearanceJobs contributor and President of the Federal Clearance Assistance Service William Henderson what he…
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Adjudication

Over and over again I run across background investigation applications (SF-85P and SF86) where the applicant fudges on listing the real reason that they left…
Security Clearance Denial

Lost in all of the sensationalism and political rancor of the last few months is the fact that FBI Background Investigators have been quietly gathering…