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Presidential obstructionism.(security clearances)(United States. Department of Justice. Office of Professional Responsibility)(Brief article)
In July 18 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales admitted that "President Bush personally blocked an internal investigation into the role played by Justice Department lawyers in approving a controversial warrantless eavesdropping program on calls between the United States and overseas" reported the Washington Post. Asked by Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) why staff lawyers from the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) weren't given security clearances necessary to investigate the program, Gonzales replied by invoking the administration's doctrine of presidential infallibility: "The president of the United States makes the decision."
"The president decided that protecting the secrecy and security of the program requires that a strict limit be placed on the number of ...
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...stakeholders in the United States' efforts to...need federal security clearances. The Federal...FBI) grants security clearances and shares classified...for obtaining security clearances. Others expressed...
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- Press release article from: Business Wire August 9, 2006 700+ words
...assigned active security clearances. Today, many...employees with security clearances due to the highly...year career in the United States Navy. For the...contractors with active security clearances to some of the...
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...basis for stripping security clearances from government...withdrawing or denying security clearances. The paper quoted...been living in the United States for over 25 years...Hamas, a group the United States, Israel, and the...
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- Magazine article from: The Nation Pell, Eve March 27, 1989 700+ words
...regulations governing security clearances, millions of Federal...interests of the United States." The draft executive...grounds for denial of security clearances, like "exploitable...executive order on security clearances would keep the...
- AFGE urges due process rights for government workers whose security clearances...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 1, 1989 700+ words
...GOVERNMENT WORKERS WHOSE SECURITY CLEARANCES ARE DENIED OR REVOKED...employees whose security clearances are denied or revoked...incumbents to hold security clearances continues to increase...employees in the United States and overseas...
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- News wire article from: PR Newswire May 19, 2009 700+ words
...the deepest recession in generations, workers holding security clearances are enjoying an average pay increase of nearly two percent...gap between the two war zones echoes the elevation of the United States' focus in Afghanistan. In fact, the number of job postings...
- Security & Defense Career Expo to Feature CIA, U.S. Secret Service, CSC,...
- Press release article from: Business Wire May 9, 2003 700+ words
...Systems, Pfizer, Inc., Pepco, Raytheon, Richmond Police Dept., Richmond, VA, Staples Inc., Target Stores, the United States Secret Service, Wachovia, XM Satellite Radio, Inc., and York County School Division; (Greenbelt, MD -- 5/20...
- Worth the wait; Security clearances take more than a year to obtain, but...
- Magazine article from: Network World June 7, 2004 700+ words
...company's 665 employees have security clearances. "Virtually all of the hires we are making require security clearances," says Mike Barbee, president...sponsor them for a clearance." Security clearances must be renewed periodically...
Source: HighBeam Research, Presidential obstructionism.(security clearances)(United States....