Issue Encyclopedia · Guideline E · Personal Conduct
Failure/Refusal to Cooperate with Security Processing
Does failure/refusal to cooperate with security processing affect a security clearance?
Basis: 57 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.
Decided cases
57
hearing-level decisions raising this issue
Granted
11%
6 granted · 51 denied or revoked
Recent decided examples
The applicant in this case sought a security clearance and faced allegations primarily under the personal conduct guideline (Guideline E). The Statement of Reasons (SOR) outlined concerns regarding th…
The allegations under Guideline D for sexual behavior were withdrawn by Department Counsel at the start of the hearing. The judge noted that the allegations were misplaced and more appropriately addre…
The applicant's security clearance was denied due to unresolved security concerns under Guidelines D, J, and E. The allegations included felony sexual assault on a minor, multiple criminal conduct cha…
The applicant in this case was a 28-year-old technician employed by a defense contractor, who sought to renew his security clearance. The adjudicative guidelines at issue included Financial Considerat…
Related issues under Guideline E
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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