Concealment Creating Vulnerability to Coercion

Official mitigating conditions in play

The formal mitigating conditions (by official paragraph) that case profiles identified on this issue, in cases that were granted vs denied. Extracted for a subset of cases; counts are cases, not percentages of everything. Read what each condition says.

What judges credited in granted cases

Specific circumstances the judge expressly credited, among the granted cases on this issue where that detail was extracted (a subset of the record, so these are raw counts, not rates).

• acknowledgment and remorse · credited in 1 granted case

Recent decided examples

• ISCR 14-03249.h1 granted · 2014
  The judge found in favor of the applicant on all allegations under Guideline E, concluding that the applicant's past conduct, including drug use and omissions on his e-QIP, was mitigated by his subseq…
• ISCR 16-01436.h1 granted · 2017
  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 21-01966 denied · 2023
  the applicant, a 35-year-old individual employed as a pricing specialist and consultant, sought a security clearance required for his position with a defense contractor. The Defense Counterintelligenc…
• ISCR 22-01131 denied · 2024
  The applicant in this case was a 39-year-old information technology project manager employed by a defense contractor since June 2022. He had previously held a security clearance since 2002 and had ser…

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