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Security Clearance Process

In an effort to ensure the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) security clearance vetting process for political appointees remains based on established national security adjudicative guidelines and is not abused by executive power, House representatives introduced legislation called the Security Clearance Review Act. If passed, it would require political appointees to

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Adjudication

With the announcement by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) that as a part of the Trusted Workforce 2.0 initiative, all Non-Sensitive Public Trust (NS-PT) employees and contractors will be enrolled in Continuous Vetting (CV), the workload for personnel security folks reviewing the alerts

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