Security Clearance Law and Procedure offers agency representatives, employees' attorneys, and union representatives a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of security clearance law. The guide is divided into two parts: Part One—History and Procedural Guide; and Part Two—Adjudicative Guidelines and Case Analyses. The text is further broken into major areas of security clearance jurisprudence with expert discussion of governing case law, adjudicative guidelines, regulations, statutes, and Executive Orders. Case analysis focuses on the issues presented when security clearances are granted, denied, and revoked. Major topics include:

• Security Clearances: One Standard-Many Processes—national standard, federal government process, resources for representing clients
• Gathering Personal Information—the application, background investigation and interview, polygraph, investigation completion
• Suitability, PIV Access, and Other Processes—federal employment suitability, debarment pursuant to a negative determination, contractors, PIV card, Department of Energy access
• Duties of Clearance Holders—periodic reinvestigations, evaluations, self-reporting, whistleblowing, pre-publication clearance
• Initial Concerns About a Clearance—answering the statement of reasons, request for information–interrogatory, preliminary adverse decision notice, responding to the SOR
• DOD Personal Appearances for Federal Employees—appeal of letter of denial/revocation, PSAB decision, procedure, reconsideration/reinstatement, back pay
• DOD Hearing Procedures for Contractors—referral to DOHA, department counsel role, assignment to AJ, procedures, processing time, success rates, research
• Procedural Issues Applicable to Hearings and Personal Appearances—burden of proof, allegations must be in SOR, evidence, witnesses, estoppel, constitutional protections, jurisdiction, summary dispositions, classified information, foreign law, good faith, level of clearance, precedent, similarly situated
• Appeals—procedures, stays, interlocutory appeals, oral argument, briefs, statutory construction, reverse/remand and their arguments, due process, jurisdiction, summary disposition, reconsideration of appeal board decisions
• Cases in the Federal Courts, MSPB, and EEOC
• Adjudicative Guidelines and Case Analyses applying those guidelines
• Policies, Publications, and Websites

Available as a softcover book and/or a PDF file with many useful features delivered on a CD-ROM, USB Flash Drive, or download. Hyperlinks allow the reader to move quickly between the Table of Contents and Index entries and the corresponding portions of the text. Internal hyperlinks serve as a cross-reference feature within the text. Major cases are linked to internet cites so that the entire case can be viewed.

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