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NBIB Director Outlines Major Focuses for Background Investigations
In a recent interview with Security Management (ASIS Online), Charlie Phalen, Director of the National Background Investigations Bureau, outlined the challenges NBIB inherited from OPM’s Federal Investigative Services and what the focus is going forward. Phalen stated “there were two big main focuses. One is, there is this backlog of

Failure to Report Foreign Contacts Gets State Department Employee in Hot Water
There has been much discussion about what constitutes a foreign national contact when filling out the SF-86 or what the reporting requirements are under continuous evaluation. Opinions are diverse and open to a matter of interpretation. However, a State Department employee who had a Top Secret security clearance went a
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…
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…
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…
Yeah thanks, I’m still waiting on SOR so i can have an attorney respond.