Blog Endorses Adjudication Hearings

Blog Lawyer carries a post urging persons holding Department of Defense clearances to take advantage of adjudicative hearings when those clearances are at risk of suspension or revocation. Persons who do so, the article argues, stand a better chance of retaining their clearance.

In all but the rarest of cases we strongly recommend that your case be decided through a hearing/appearance. For all practical purposes a security clearance decision is going to be won or lost at that hearing.

The article also traces an adjudication process:

...Central Adjudication Facility (CAF) issues a Letter of Intent (LOI); employee responds to LOI; CAF issues Letter of Denial/Revocation (LOD); employee appeals LOD; Administrative Judge issues recommendation; Personnel Security Appeals Board (PSAB) of CAF issues final decision.

Confidential clearances are said to last 15 years; Secret, 10 years, and TS, or Top Secret, five years, before a Periodic Reinvestigation, or PR, is triggered.

Filed Under: Procedures, Adjudication, Adverse Actions, Commercial Services