Security Clearance news
Drug Use and a Department of Energy Security Clearance
As we all know, illegal drug use is one of the disqualifiers for being granted a security clearance, but it can be mitigated depending on several factors. Here is a tale of two drug users who applied for a security clearance with the Department of Energy. Case #1: This applicant
What Are Your Chances of Winning a Security Clearance Appeal? Not Good in 2018
The Defense Office of Hearing and Appeals has started 2018 off with a bang in hearing twenty-four appeal cases, of which twenty-two clearance denial decisions were upheld, one denial decision reversed to clearance granted, and one case remanded back to the original adjudicator for a procedural review. As has historically
Good Luck. You are wasting your time contacting a Congressman. Senator Van Hollen was told to pound sand when an OIG investigation disappeared regarding the destruction of evidence for a…
One of the issues I’ve seen: you have an open investigation, unresolved, finished, adjudicated. No other agency knows what has been scoped, are there any issues, etc I’ve seen agencies…
Not really…unless they let you work while waiting. Any investigation sitting out there with unadjudicated info…can stop other investigations
This agency has a standard policy of only allowing 3 poly fails before revoking your conditional access. It’s a suitability thing related to your SCI and congresspeople will not be…