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Security Clearance Denial

It may be surprising to a lot of people in the United States that Israel is listed by the U.S. Department of State as a designated country and has export control and ITAR restrictions and sanctions are in place due to concerns about missile technology theft and other issues. Isn’t Israel

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Security Clearance Process

As an add-on to the article “DSS Looks to push through the Security Clearance Investigations Backlog” posted by Lindy Kyzer on our main site, here are a few other reasons why some background investigations are moving at slower than a snail’s pace. Back in December of last year I posted an article about

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Past Security Clearance Posts

Obtaining Security Clearance

This week a budget analyst at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency filed a lawsuit against the NGA, seeking reinstatement of his Top Secret/SCI security clearance, it having…
Security Clearance Jobs

On September 20, 2011 the FAS (Federation of American Scientists) Secrecy News blog reported, “The number of persons who held security clearances for access to…
Security Clearance Process

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has posted 4 new Federal Investigations Notices (FIN) on their website all dated August 29, 2011. FIN 11-04—“Continuous Efforts…