The designers of the updated security clearance process say many obstacles await the new system’s implementation, including uncertain funding. Uncertain funding may be the biggest hurdle to ...

A federal judge in New York granted a summary judgment motion to The New York Times regarding its public records request for a list of Elon Musk's security clearances -- and Musk's own public comments ...

A federal judge’s order to release some details of Musk’s security clearances highlights how public disclosures by high-profile individuals can erode Privacy Act protections and raises questions about ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some U.S. government workers with top security clearances fired in mass layoffs overseen by Elon Musk in recent weeks were not given standard exit briefings and advised on what ...

House Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) revealed today that a whistleblower who currently works inside the White House Security Office sat for a confidential, ...

Davis and various industry groups have been lobbying the Defense Department to resume immediately processing the security clearance applications. The House Government Reform Committee, which Davis ...

The president's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has been stripped of his temporary, high-level security clearance under new rules imposed by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly designed ...

Democrats on a key House panel are pressing the White House on why former national security adviser Michael Flynn was allowed to maintain top-level security clearances despite allegations of security ...

The Defense Department has proposed long-term measures, including a new internal oversight office, to prevent recurring problems that recently forced it to stop processing security clearances for ...

White House chief of staff John Kelly, under fire over the White House’s handling of domestic abuse allegations against a senior aide, ordered an overhaul of the security clearance process for current ...

A Bush administration plan to speed security clearances for Defense Department employees and contractors includes impressive metrics but also some significant deficiencies, according to testimony ...

A computer specialist has filed a complaint to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) after being told they had failed the vetting process just before starting work as a technology specialist at ...