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Security Clearance Denial

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After sending two emails containing classified information on an unclassified network to unauthorized recipients, a U.S. Air Force civilian employee was fired and his clearance was revoked.

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Security Clearance Denial

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Two recent Defense Office of Hearing and Appeals (DOHA) cases involved security clearance applicants who had been charged with viewing child pornography, which is a felony offense. Both applicants were denied eligibility for a clearance and on appeal, argued the websites and pictures they had viewed were not considered child pornography even

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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.

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