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Misuse of Employer Time or Resources

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

Does misuse of employer time or resources affect a security clearance?

Misuse of Employer Time or Resources is an issue decided under Guideline E, Personal Conduct. In the decided DOHA record it appears in 66 hearing-level cases, and 14% of the 66 decided ended with access granted (9 granted, 57 denied). The mitigating conditions judges credited most often, and example decisions either way, are below.

Basis: 66 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.

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Decided cases

66

hearing-level decisions raising this issue

Granted

14%

9 granted · 57 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(c) · Minor, long ago, infrequent, or under unique circumstances

    In granted cases
    4
    In denied cases
    1

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 2 granted cases

Recent decided examples

  • ISCR Case No. 21-01308Granted2024

    The applicant in this case was a 55-year-old senior director for business development at a defense contractor, with a military background as a retired Colonel. The Defense Counterintelligence and Secu…

  • ISCR Case No. 15-08381.h1Granted2018

    The judge found in favor of the applicant regarding personal conduct concerns under Guideline E. The applicant's responses on the e-QIP were deemed false, but the judge credited the applicant's explan…

  • ISCR Case No. 22-01131Denied2024

    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…

  • ISCR Case No. 21-00922Denied2022

    The applicant in this case was a 45-year-old engineering technician employed by a defense contractor since January 2019, with prior employment at the same company from 2012 to 2018. The Defense Counte…

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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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