The Pentagon's budget for 2020 holds prices for the government agencies who need security clearance services to the existing levels in 2019. Previously the c...

The ONLY levels of Security Clearance that exist are Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret. Anything else is either an approval or determination that does NO...

A mistake that often appears in media reports about clearances is saying that a person has only an interim clearance and so does not have "full" clearance. ...

To be granted security clearance, an assessment must be made that it is "clearly consistent with the interests of national security" for the person to be cle...

The President has ultimate authority over clearance adjudications. All federal agency security officials derive their powers from the President and can be ov...

Security clearance decisions are an Executive Branch function. They flow from the President's Article II powers in the Constitution. A Congressional "overs...

In Leslie's new book, entitled The Top 25 "Quick Questions" About Security Clearances ANSWERED!, she answers the 25 top questions that clients (and friends a...

"Public Trust" is NOT a security clearance. It is determination by the US Government that the person can have access to certain kinds of sensitive, but uncl...