Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fabricating background checks can lead to national security nightmares, according to experts. A federal contractor has now ...

The name-calling hasn’t stopped. Since June 9, when a 29-year-old government contractor outed himself as the source of secret documents that revealed far-reaching National Security Agency surveillance ...

Who gets to hold a security clearance? And more importantly, what happens to that eligibility when someone steps out of federal service? Security clearances are the gatekeepers of the nation’s secrets ...