Originally Posted by
wickedsolo
Here's even another one for you:
If you have a clearance from the FBI and you apply for a job with the NSA then the NSA is going to, for all intents and purposes, have to "re-clear" you because they don't trust (or don't want to trust) the FBI's criteria for issuing someone a clearance. It's like that for almost every agency. The CIA, NSA, Homeland Security, Boarder Patrol, DOD, DOJ, FBI, etc, will look at a clearance issued from another agency and determine that it's not good enough and needs to be re-evaluated.
Do you have any idea how much time and money that wastes? Granted, not many folks are actually eligible for a clearance, but those who are have to sit around in different corporate puragtories waiting to actually do their job...getting paid their full salary...and the government is getting no return on that investment whatsoever.
A few years ago I was chatting with an NCIS agent who told me that it can cost upwards of 100K to give someone a clearance when it's all said and done. So, if it costs that much (approximately) to clear one person and each agency refuses to acknowledge another's clearance...even though under the new DCI they are supposed to be working together more...can you imagine how much money is wasted on redundant processes? It's incredible.