GAO Addresses Hill Questions on Clearances

The Government Accountability Office has issued a letter responding to several questions asked during a recent hearing before a congressional subcommittee. Among the letter’s highlights:

• The GAO emphasizes the need to build more quality and quality monitoring into the clearance process, relating to the thoroughness of clearance investigations;

• Calls for a long-term commitment, across five areas, to improve the security clearance process;

• Government agency statistics on clearance processing timeliness are unreliable;

• The Government needs, but does not currently have, a database that records statistics on the reciprocity of clearances across Federal agencies.

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