A white supremeicist with security clearance-what could possibly be wrong with that?

[Lee-Lee]

21. There can be many reasons for what you posted- not all racism

I do this for a living.

Remember, contractors don’t issue clearances, don’t establish the process for getting them and don’t set the rules. They have to just supply people who can qualify for the cleanrace.

And it’s in their interest to sponsor people for clearances who are most likely to get a fast approval- because if you hire someone and their clearance ends up denied you just wasted a ton of time and money, and if you hire someone whose clearance takes twice or three times as long to adjudicate that means you lose money.

So if a person has significant foreign ties- close family overseas, owns land overseas, travels often to visit people overseas, that can take a whole lot longer for OPM to investigate and adjudicate if the cleanrace is approved, and that’s if.

I am talking about the difference between a person with no issues on an SF-86 who has zero foreign contacts or travel, good credit, no criminal history in today’s backlog can get a clearance in 6-9 months at fastest (I’ve seen it 4 months in the past but not these days). If you add to that someone with significant family ties overseas and foreign contacts, travels, etc that will take it well over a year and I’ve seen it go over 2 years. Same if the person had a criminal history or bad credit or anything else that requires deeper investigation.

Is it fair? No. But that is how it works.

So employers are already hamstrung. They have to invest time and money into sponsorship of a cleanrace. If you get rejected that money is lost. They have to wait for it to come back to employ you in that job- so either they have to find busy work for you in the meantime to put you on the payroll or they have to gamble you won’t change you mind about accepting the job, and the longer it takes the more likely you are to change your mind. And every day longer it takes is a day longer they don’t have anyone doing the job they need someone to do.

In my job I prescreen all our applicants to see if there are any issues that would prohibit a security clearance or delay one. If I find issues that would give a high chance of it being denied I recommend we don’t hire. If I see issues that would indicate a delay I pass that on, and they determine based on the pool of applicants and the individual and how badly the position must be filled if they want to wait for the longer adjudication. If the person is worth the extra wait and risk we do. If there is a well enough qualified applicant we know we can have on the job months faster, often they get it.

It’s not so much about your loyalty, it’s about how fast or slow your clearance is likely to be approved from the employers perspective.