Once again, republicans are willing to put our country at risk all in the name of politics and protecting tax cuts for their money lords. "One of the ongoing effects of sequestration is that the Pentagon is required to undergo an series of across-the-board, untargeted cuts to its budget, roughly $41 billion dollars worth over the course of 2013 when all’s accounted for. One of the programs hit by these blunt cuts is the Defense Security Service (DSS), the section of the Defense Department (DOD) tasked with issuing security clearances to the thousands of civilian staffers and contractors who work within the Pentagon. On June 7, the DSS quietly announced on its website that it was facing a “budget shortfall” until at least September. The result: a suspension of “most” of the routine background investigations into the people who already hold Top Secret clearances. These “Periodic Reinvestigations (PRs)” — conducted by the Defense Industrial Security Clearance Office (DISCO) and the Office of Personnel and Management — are nominally required every five years, to ensure that there are no new issues in the trustworthiness of the people who have access to some of the most highly classified information in the national security system."
Posted on: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 18:14:31 +0000
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