“This was blatant. It was brazen and, in my mind, it was deliberate. It was a betrayal, and it was as close to treasonous as you can get,” the judge said.
The move came a day after a Navy Times investigation exposed how troops in the affected buildings had been living without basic creature comforts for years.
Department of Defense components will all be required to use the Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals for final appeals on contractor security clearance denials.
The Biden DoD transition is proceeding as normal, according to senior defense officials. Allegations that transition team members were denied access to the DoD intelligence community were due to a procedural mishap on the Biden side.
The National Security Agency's program for offering retention incentives to critical personnel did not have needed oversight or goals, according to the agency's inspector general.