Issue Encyclopedia · Guideline E · Personal Conduct
Violation of a Written Commitment
Does violation of a written commitment affect a security clearance?
Basis: 44 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.
Decided cases
44
hearing-level decisions raising this issue
Granted
9%
4 granted · 40 denied or revoked
Circumstances credited in granted cases
- acknowledgment and remorse · credited in 1 granted case
Recent decided examples
The judge found that the applicant's personal conduct did not raise security concerns. The applicant's past drug use was deemed infrequent and unlikely to recur, and he demonstrated a commitment to ab…
The judge found that the applicant mitigated the personal conduct concerns arising from a breach of his employment agreement with his former employer. This incident was characterized as a minor lapse …
The applicant in this case was a 40-year-old senior logistics specialist who had held a security clearance since 2003. The Department of Defense's Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA…
The applicant in this case was a 67-year-old employee of a government contractor, who had a history of personal conduct issues that raised security concerns under Guideline E. The Statement of Reasons…
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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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