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A United States security clearance is an official determination that an individual may access information classified by the United States Government.Security clearances are hierarchical; each level grants the holder access to information in that level and the levels below it.
Security clearances can be issued by many United States of America government agencies, including the Department of Defense (DoD), the Department of State (DOS), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Energy (DoE), the Department of Justice (DoJ), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Obtaining such clearance requires, in part, a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) which is conducted under the manuals of the U.S. Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency. Individuals with Yankee White clearance undergo extensive background investigation.
President Donald Trump pulled the security clearances of more than 50 national security officials who said Hunter Biden’s laptop had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation ...
A Q Clearance is equivalent to a U.S. Department of Defense Top Secret clearance. [2] According to the Department of Energy, "Q access authorization corresponds to the background investigation and administrative determination similar to what is completed by other agencies for a Top Secret National Security Information access clearance." [2]
DOD 5220.22-M, National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM), 28 February, 2006; DODD 5200.1-R, Information Security Program, January 1997; EO 13526, Classified National Security Information, 29 December 2009; Intelligence Community Authorized Classification and Control Markings, Register and Manual, vol. 5, no. 1, (2012)
President Trump yanked John Bolton’s security clearance on Monday. AP Bolton was Trump’s national security adviser in 2018 and 2019 and wrote a tell-all memoir shortly after he was fired.
The Office of Personnel Management data breach was a 2015 data breach targeting Standard Form 86 (SF-86) U.S. government security clearance records retained by the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM).