Re: So many jobs want CURRENT security clearances

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Plato" <gilliankitty -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: August 15, 2003 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: So many jobs want CURRENT security clearances


>
> "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info> wrote
>
> > I can't believe that anything I write on the Internet would be reason to
deny
> > me a clearance.
>
> Your Internet posting are absolutely within bounds to deny you security
> clearance. Most background checks now include thorough Internet searches for
> your on-line behavior. Some places even track down your IP address from your
> home PC during a period when you used it and correlate it back to you. Many
> employers are now doing such checks as well.
>
> Be careful what you post on the Internet with your name attached to it.
These
> things can come back to hurt you later on.
>
> Andrew Plato
>

I am aware of the fact that what is written on the Internet is freely
available to all. That is not what I meant.

I meant that *I* believe that *I* have written nothing for which I would be
denied a clearance. If you think my stating that I think the requirement for a
security clearance is shutting out people from employment opportunities is
cause for a denial of a clearance at some future date, I'd have to say that I
think you're wrong.

Bonnie Granat
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