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Inscrutable Chinese: Silliness With Security Clearances

Apparently a judge believes no one with relatives in China should hold a security clearance. (Previous rulings to this effect have been upheld on appeals, see here and here.)

Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough approve.

Gertz and Scarborough report that they “obtained an opinion from Administrative Judge James A. Young” and quotes the “attorney for the clearance applicant, who was not identified by name.”

Um, the decision is on-line with the Attorney’s name: pro se. That’s Latin meaning “for oneself.”

Jeffrey Lewis

Writing on ACW 2004–2026

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is the founding publisher of Arms Control Wonk.com. He is the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. His also a non-resident affiliate at Stanford's Center for Security and International Cooperation and a Contributing Editor to Survival.

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