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Thursday, November 3, 2011

Time to clear up some security clearance doubts



The Drum Opinion

3 NOVEMBER 2011

The floored industry of security clearances needs urgent investigation. (Thinkstock: iStockphoto)
Bruce Haigh
The security clearance industry is just that – an industry.
In theory and more often in practice the more sophisticated a society the more efficient and streamlined is the process for obtaining a security clearance.
Record keeping - births, deaths and marriages - school, trade and university qualifications, police records, military service records and media interventions, mentions and appearances, all assist in building a profile. Couple this with an efficient filing and retrieval system and obtaining a security clearance should be neither difficult nor lengthy.More>>>>