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Security Clearance Denial

There was a lot of buzz a few years ago when the Office of Personnel Management and the Department of Justice cracked down on contractor background investigators who were falsifying reports of investigation and collecting payments for work that was not done. A recent Department of Hearing and Appeals (DOHA)

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Security Clearance Process

When the Defense Counterintelligence Agency (DCSA) first introduced their new National Background Investigation Services (NBIS) system a few years ago, it was still going through a lot of changes to work out the bugs that caused almost daily system outages. This caused a lot of frustration with eAPP applicants and

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Past Security Clearance Posts

Polygraph

By now, you would think security clearance applicants would know to be up front and honest about marijuana use, seeing as how ODNI and OPM…
Obtaining Security Clearance

I recently ran across a most unusual Defense Office of Hearing and Appeals (DOHA) case where the applicant previously had his clearance revoked in 2020…
Security Clearance Denial

I see this over and over in security clearance denial cases. The applicant fails to disclose something that in and of itself is not serious…
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