New Pentagon Proposal May Threaten Clearance Processing

The Baltimore Business Journal reports (registration required) on a new Pentagon proposal that may slow issuing security clearances.

Two years ago, the chief executive of the super-secretive National Security Agency was downright chatty when addressing business groups across Maryland about the need to dramatically reduce the time it takes to issue security clearances for defense contractors.

Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden’s candor underscored the pressing need to have cleared professionals in the private sector available to handle a fast-growing workload. At that time, Hayden, now General Hayden, director of the CIA, was blunt about the pressing need to clean out the bottleneck in the security clearance process…

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