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Security Probes Hold Up Diplomats

Nicholas Kralev writes in The Washington Times:

Dozens of Foreign Service officers say their careers are in ruins because their security clearances were suspended based on suspicions or unsubstantiated accusations.

Several have accused the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) in interviews of "abusing the security clearance process" by punishing "whistleblowing, dissenting viewpoints or minor acts of possible misfeasance unrelated to national security."

posted by Fergie @ 9/18/2006 10:08:00 AM