The Defense Department may be subject to "a higher risk of compromise" because its process of granting security clearances to defense contractors does not meet the requirements laid out in a 1995 executive order, according to a new report. The DOD inspector general says Defense Security Service case analysts have been "making adjudicative decisions and granting security clearances to DOD contractors without being trained in adjudication," a violation of Executive Order No. 12968, "Access to Classified Information," which was signed...
