Re: Computer-assisted decisions sometimes a good thing

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:47 PM
To: David Farber
Subject: anonymous please Re: [IP] Computer-assisted decisions sometimes a good thing

Dave:
Please make this anonymous as well.  I prefer that it not be known that I have a clearance and work with people with 
clearances.

The proposed system sounds very much like the current system to me.  When I went for my clearance, there was something 
on my application which was out of the standard profile, so I was not granted an interim clearance.  The application 
then went into the pile for an investigator to work.  Eventually that happened, they acquired the additional 
information they needed, and the final clearance was granted.  (Many of my foreign born colleagues have the same 
experience.)  It sounds like they propose to automate that initial search and decision.  Of course, this presumes that 
when they say that the system will deny some clearances those are the obviously out-of-scope ones where the applicant 
is not a US citizen, etc.

I would also presume that they will retain the appeal process.  I have had colleagues who have had to go before an 
appeal board after being denied and who were able to clear up issues that had not been resolved during the 
investigation.

All-in-all, if this frees up investigators and speeds the process of getting clearances through, it sounds like an 
improvement.

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