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As Congress struggles to find a solution to the massive data breach affecting cleared personnel, the Congressional Research Service has produced two new reports on the breaches that have been obtained and published by the Federation of American Scientists. The first, OPM Data Breach: Personnel Security Background Investigation Data, offers

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Background Investigations

During the last 5 years have you been fired from a job for any reason, did you quit after being told you would be fired, or did you leave a job by mutual agreement due to specific problems?

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Past Security Clearance Posts

Background InvestigationsObtaining Security Clearance

Our popular ongoing series allows you to ask your most complex questions regaring security clearances and our regular contributors of present and former clearance investigators and adjudicators…
Background Investigations

On 18 April 2008 the Department of Defense (DoD) announced that Question #21 regarding mental health on Standard Form 86 (Questionnaire for National Security Positions)…
Background InvestigationsObtaining Security Clearance

On 30 June 2008 President Bush issued Executive Order 13467 (Reforming Processes Related to Suitability for Government Employment, Fitness for Contractor Employees, and Eligibility for…