Guideline E: Personal Conduct Archives - National Security Lawyers Association

Security Clearances: What You Need to Know as a Cleared Professional

Featured Attorney: Anthony Kuhn

Published: May 31, 2023

Tags: Guideline E: Personal Conduct

How does continuous monitoring impact cleared professionals and self-reporting? The big difference is, under the periodic reinvestigations, individuals knew how long they had between investigations. So if you have a secret clearance, you’re usually good for 10 years before you get reinvestigated, and a top secret is five years, etc....

Will George Santos’ Lies Cost Him Access To Classified Information?

Featured Attorney: Dan Meyer

Published: January 4, 2023

Tags: Guideline E: Personal Conduct, Guideline F: Financial Considerations, Guideline I: Psychological Conditions, Guideline J: Criminal Conduct

Rep.-elect George Santos (R-NY) has been unmasked as purveyor of so many falsehoods, it’s really hard to know where the fiction ends and the real person begins. He has also, perhaps unknowingly, walked the Republic back into a security concern it has previously failed to resolve....

Security Clearances: DUIs To One-Night Stands With Russian Nationals

Featured Attorney: Anthony Kuhn

Published: July 19, 2022

Tags: Guideline E: Personal Conduct

What should I do if I was arrested for a DUI this weekend? With a DUI, you have a couple of different guidelines potentially at play. You’ve got an alcohol guideline violation, criminal conduct, and if you don’t report it, you’re looking at a guideline E for personal conduct or self-reporting as well....

Security Clearances: Self Reporting With Tully Rinckey PLLC, Tony Kuhn

Featured Attorney: Anthony Kuhn

Published: June 22, 2022

Tags: Guideline A: Allegiance to the United States, Guideline B: Foreign Influence, Guideline C: Foreign Preference, Guideline E: Personal Conduct, Guideline F: Financial Considerations, Guideline H: Drug Involvement and Substance Misuse, Guideline I: Psychological Conditions

Kathleen Smith Hi, this is Kathleen and welcome to this special security clearance focused episode of our podcast with our special guest Anthony Kuhn of Tully Rinckey PLLC. Tony, thank you for joining us this afternoon. Can you tell me who you are, who you work for, and a little bit about yourself?...

Will ‘Outside Activities’ Lead to Security Review?

Published: March 8, 2022

Tags: Guideline A: Allegiance to the United States, Guideline E: Personal Conduct, Guideline G: Alcohol Consumption, Guideline H: Drug Involvement and Substance Misuse, Guideline J: Criminal Conduct, Guideline K: Handling Protected Information, Guideline L: Outside Activities, Guideline M: Use of Information Technology Systems

Not all security clearance concerns are equal. When a large volume of agency Statement of Reasons passes through your office, you begin to recognize trends. Guideline E, Personal Conduct and Guideline J, Criminal Conduct are the jokers of the card deck, often added to underscore character issues and augment guidelines of greater subject-matter specificity....

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