Issue Encyclopedia · Guideline D · Sexual Behavior
Extramarital Relationship with Coercion Risk
Does extramarital relationship with coercion risk affect a security clearance?
Basis: 45 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.
Decided cases
45
hearing-level decisions raising this issue
Granted
16%
7 granted · 38 denied or revoked
Recent decided examples
The applicant in this case was a 58-year-old individual who submitted a security clearance application on October 17, 2023. The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency issued a Statement of Re…
The judge found that the applicant mitigated security concerns related to his relationship with an adult film actress. The government did not provide credible evidence that the applicant engaged in il…
The applicant in this case was a 58-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen who sought a security clearance to work for a U.S. defense contractor. The Department of Defense issued a Statement of Reasons cit…
The applicant in this case was a 61-year-old employee of a defense contractor who had held a security clearance since approximately 2004. The Department of Defense issued a Statement of Reasons (SOR) …
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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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