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Concealment Creating Vulnerability to Coercion

What the decided record shows for this issue, computed from public DOHA hearing-level decisions. Descriptive history, not a prediction.

Does concealment creating vulnerability to coercion affect a security clearance?

Concealment Creating Vulnerability to Coercion is an issue decided under Guideline E, Personal Conduct. In the decided DOHA record it appears in 88 hearing-level cases, and 8% of the 88 decided ended with access granted (7 granted, 81 denied). The mitigating conditions judges credited most often, and example decisions either way, are below.

Basis: 88 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.

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Decided cases

88

hearing-level decisions raising this issue

Granted

8%

7 granted · 81 denied or revoked

Official mitigating conditions cited

The formal mitigating conditions the case profiles identified on this issue, in cases that were granted and in cases that were denied. Each is shown with its paragraph number and a plain name. Read what each condition says.

  • ¶ 17(e) · Steps taken to reduce vulnerability to pressure

    In granted cases
    6
    In denied cases
    0

Circumstances credited in granted cases

The specific circumstances the judge expressly credited among the granted cases on this issue where that detail was extracted.
  • acknowledgment and remorse · credited in 1 granted case

Recent decided examples

  • ISCR Case No. 16-01436.h1Granted2017

    The judge found that the applicant's sexual behavior, specifically an extramarital affair, did not create a vulnerability to coercion or exploitation. The applicant's conduct was deemed private and co…

  • ISCR Case No. 15-04716.h1Granted2016

    The judge addressed concerns regarding the applicant's sexual behavior, specifically related to his solicitation of prostitution in June 2014. Despite the serious nature of the conduct, the judge foun…

  • ISCR Case No. 25-00996Denied2026

    Applicant, a 66 year old principal architect for a federal contractor, was denied a security clearance. He admitted embezzling about $38,000 from an open source organization while serving as treasurer…

  • ISCR Case No. 23-00935Denied2025

    The applicant in this case was a 58-year-old logistics specialist employed by a Department of Defense contractor since 2008. The adjudicative guidelines at issue were Guideline B (foreign influence) a…

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How these numbers are measured

Scope: decided hearing-level cases whose per-allegation profile records this issue, matched to the same issue value the search filters use, so a count here and a filtered search always agree. A case raising several issues counts under each one. The mitigating conditions and the credited circumstances below were extracted for a subset of the record, so both are counts of cases rather than rates. Pages exist only for issues with at least 25 decided cases, and † marks any split built on fewer than 20.

Reading the statistics

  • Granted = access granted or continued; Denied = denied or revoked.
  • Grant rate = granted ÷ (granted + denied).
  • † marks figures based on fewer than 20 cases, too few to be reliable.
  • Hovering any rate shows its statistical range (a 95% confidence interval).
  • Figures are descriptive counts over decided, public DOHA ISCR decisions, never predictions or assessments of any pending case.

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