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[Levithane]

Point of order, BI's should not be telling references or employers who they are conducting the BI for/on behalf of. That goes for military, contractor, and federal. Won't post the reason why on here, but thats not something they should be doing.

[Levithane]

DCSA = section of the DOD that is doing background investigations for federal, contractor, and military personnel presently. OPM previously did the work with NBIB, but NBIB was done away with via executive order. Not aware of HR for any agency getting involved with the BI work, aside from submitting...

[Levithane]

I'll reiterate, dude is probably crossing the line with the polygraph stuff, but is probably doing it for damage control. I don't think I've ever seen anyone say anything positive about CBPs polygraph, especially on delphi. Frankly it wouldn't surprise me if the person behind the account is one of the...

[Levithane]

https://www.fox9.com/news/minneapoli...-after-threats

Right on que with private security. Kudos to whoever called it first.

[Levithane]

Being 100% upfront with you theres no rhyme or reason as to when a lot of these backgrounds start and get assigned to an investigator. I haven't the slightest clue in how DCSA makes determinations of what makes it to the front of the pile. I haven't worked on anything for DEA in awhile, but the military...

[Levithane]

MAA Yes they don't accept DCSA bi's. Just from experience I would say part of it has to do with Source's getting ticked off having to interview for the same person twice in a short period of time, and then giving the Fed negative feedback (they do follow up with this). Example: "the investigator...

[Levithane]

No idea, CBP is a dumpster fire of a process compared to other places. Im fairly certain they can determine if someones case is in the field or not. If it is currently in the field I don't see another agency initiating one if their cases are all adjudicated by the same entity (FBI and USPIS are excluded...

[Levithane]

None of the agencies operate at the same pace. You could be polygraphed one day for one, and months down the road be interviewed by an investigator for a different job you didn't polygraph for. From what I've been told agencies generally don't communicate in depth like that, unless they find out the...

[Levithane]

I haven't seen two run at once. What I have seen is a person go through a secret, then a few months down the road get investigated for a TS. As far as the FBI they do what they want, their whole background/security process is a bit incestuous since its in house. Simultaneous investigations may have...

[Levithane]

In partial defense of the OP recruiters telling enlistees to lie about these things happens regularly. Recruiters also get written up quite frequently for falsifying security forms. Couldn't tell you what happens punishment wise since thats outside my per-view for recruiters. In fact some recruiters...

[Levithane]

Two investigations can't be conducted at once. Whichever one gets initiated first will have to be completed before the other one can start. Sometimes the agency can request the one that was completed if it will fit their requirements, and forego doing another entire one. If a Secret gets initiated that...

[Levithane]

Im going to go out on a limb and say all of that probably isn't current, as it is dated 2010. A large number of the people Ive looked into wouldn't be eligible by some of those guidelines. IE conflicting statements about drug usage (MJ). Example SF86 asks for drug usage in the past 7 years, Drug Questionnaire...

[Levithane]

Can't comment on how DEA does their suitability, because Im not involved in it. Only example I could think of is if you tell them you didn't ever use weed, and then a reference gets interviewed tells the investigator you smoked weed with the reference. Just an example but that happens a lot with military...

[Levithane]

If someone wanted evidence for cause to defund a department that video would be it. No point in the public paying for a police force if two officers aren't going to stop an armed crime in progress....

[Levithane]

For the most part people pass adjudication. The flip side is that adjudication isn't done by DEA, but suitability is. This is where the paradigm of being adjudicated, and not being found suitable comes into play. So while you can be adjudicated you can be found unsuitable, and then be out of the ru...

[Levithane]

What will take the most time is when the entire report is completed and its sitting on an adjudicators desk. Unless DEA is requesting these cases to be expedited they will be sitting at the bottom of the stack for awhile.

[Levithane]

You mean DCSA? Generally after you are interviewed they then work on various other parts of your background. IE, obtaining records, interviewing neighbors, talking to co-workers. If you get a half decent investigator they'll have what they are assigned done within a week.

[Levithane]

Thats because the same/similar ideologies are co-opting the grievances the public has. Whether that be financial distress because of Covid, George Floyd incident, or whatever else that may be its very apparent bad actors are co-opting it. Apparently no one in the news has the courage to use dirty words...

[Levithane]

ghambone YMMV on recruiters. The one at my FO is responsive and on top of her game. In comparison my friend in another state generally never heard a word from the one at his.

[Levithane]

For Federal backgrounds in the military I end up writing up recruiters quite frequently. In your case all you can do is disclose it, can't comment on how local and state will look at this. Ultimately an adjudicator looks at it on the Federal side. Make sure you have all the recruiters contact information...