tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248980090449642955.post6018824725561407752..comments2023-03-25T06:29:51.852-07:00Comments on Dead Men Working: FSJ: State Clearance Decisions Arbitrary? No Doubt About It!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248980090449642955.post-41808498161381613522010-01-15T06:17:55.023-08:002010-01-15T06:17:55.023-08:00Steve, thanks for the posting about security clear...Steve, thanks for the posting about security clearance adjudication abuse at the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS)by AFSA VP Daniel Hirsch, whose comments about the letter writing campaign might best be addressed by a British backbencher, is the right honourable gentleman from AFSA being serious???<br /><br />This site along with others has documented years of clearance adjudication abuse by DS with the complicity of senior management at the Department, which has not had a credible or serious Inspector General (IG) for decades, the nadir of that period being the tenure of "Cookie" Krongard. The Department's contempt for the law, fair play and administrative regulation is manifest. So Mr. Hirsch would now have us believe that, after several letters over the years, another letter from AFSA parsing the nuances of law and common adjudication prodecures/practices government-wide will receive any serious consideration or response by the Department's senior management, who by now must quickly and laughingly consign these letters to the proverbial circular file?<br /><br />Mr. Hirsch is right once again, I suppose, to direct attention to this tree of corruption within the DS forest. Other rotted trees of incompetence and corruption have also recently come to view. The DS successful ruse to immunize its Blackwater mercenary contract cronies so that they would not face a trial or justice in the Iraqi massacre. We also have the Carlos Allen and Abdul Mutallab failures, about which Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton was quoted as follows: "This incident, along with the terror attempt on a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day by Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab may well show that the State Department is a weak link in U.S. security."<br /><br />It is to be hoped that loyal executives of integrity and a sense of due diligence in the federal government eventually focus attention on the corruption and abuses across the panoply of the DS fetid forest. In the meantime, if Mr. Hirsch is serious about reforming the tree of clearance adjudication at State, he is best advised to work within to persuade AFSA to cease and desist from watering it through continued participation in unethical and legally indefensible adjudication procedures. Anything less will only make AFSA appear as insincere and feckless as the management whom it asks to redress the grievances.CHASCHUCKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09545582990810807393noreply@blogger.com