WAYNE BARNES ON SECURITY CLEARANCE PROCESS

Marc Weber Tobias interviews Wayne Barnes, Retired FBI Special Agent, about the security clearance process and what is involved in Secret, Top Secret, and SCI clearances and the SF-86 background form..
Wayne was in the Bureau for 29 years and worked Foreign counterintelligence cases, recruiting and debriefing high-level defectors from Eastern Bloc countries during the cold war. He was responsible for developing the Personal Security Interview in the 1980's, which is now utilized throughout the U.S. Government for certain applicants and security positions.
He also worked the Robert Hanssen case involving a spy in the Bureau.
Wayne works as a private investigator in Florida for major clients. He also made famous the FBI Pizza Call.

[@drizzle8482]

I am Romanian. In 1990 I was in Rome. I went to the USA Embassy and I read the USA Immigration Regulations Code. And I came across an article regarding categories who couldn't be accepted on USA territory. And it stated, among these categories, THE COMMUNISTS. It stated that citizens of communist countries could have access in USA ONLY if they had formally left the communist party at least 24 months before they applied to immigrate to USA. And I remembered that, in 1978, Ion Mihai Pacepa, Ceausescu's right hand, had escaped and taken refuge to USA and he had been living there ever since, under State protection. And THAT WAS ILLEGAL !!! I asked to speak with the ambassador and I was told that I had to ask for an audience. I went home and I called the embassy and I asked for that audience. The woman on the phone asked me about the reason of my request. I told her that a Romanian communist had been accepted in USA against the USA Law. I never heard a person stutter for so long as that lady. When she finally managed to recuperate control she said they would call me back to give me an answer. Nobody did. About a week later I went back to the embassy and I asked again for the Immigration Regulations Code. THEY TOLD ME THEY DIDN'T HAVE IT !!!!!!!!!!!! That moment I lost my respect for Americans forever !!! I thought I could start writing about the matter to the american newspapers. I'm sure I would have found persons interested in the matter. But I felt so disgusted that I didn't feel like doing anything. I felt like vomiting and I couldn't stand the sensation. And I felt the same hate and the same despise for Americans as I had had for Ceausescu and the Romanian Securitate. You are all the same !!! Bloody bastards !!!

[@dave4cool693]

Will business like Forex Trading affect TS security clearance?

[@KingDoomfist]

Sounds like clearance is a popularity contest for Puritans.

[@456swagger]

No I've worked with murderers who were granted security clearances. Loyalty and honesty are big factors. There are no Puritans.

[@flawns]

@@456swagger are you serious

[@456swagger]

@@flawns About which comment?

[@flawns]

@@456swagger about working next to murderers and still got cleared?

[@456swagger]

@@flawns Yes I was serious. It was during the cold war. Murderers could be cleared once they had served their sentence as long as they weren't deemed to be loyalty/ security risks. Two disqualifying factors back then were illegal drug use/ addiction and theft / dishonesty.

[@janetginger8571]

today Epoch Times has shown an interesting article & art regarding you....p.C 11

[@MrDukeus]

Nice wig agent