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Obtaining Security Clearance

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Last month I wrote about the Security Clearance Improvement Act of 2021 that was submitted to Congress with the aim of identifying security clearance applicants who may have participated in events such as those that occurred on January 6, 2021 at the Capitol. Last week another bill called the Security Clearance Review

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Security Clearance Denial

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to those that spin a web of lies or hide information.

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Call from NSA today
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Low case loads/decrease in work
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Anxious about clearance
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TS Clearance, Lied/Omission on SF86 but came clean at interview
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ISN loses contract
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“The Anti-Polygraph Debate”
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Multiple red flags
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ISN loses contract
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Discussing: Call from NSA today
Vanilla_Spice22

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…

bebe1979

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…

Vanilla_Spice22

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…

bebe1979

Yeah thanks, I’m still waiting on SOR so i can have an attorney respond.

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