Should An Intelligence Analyst Be Told On Why He Is Losing His Security Clearance?

U.S. Strips Intelligence Analyst Of Security Clearance And Job But Won't Say Why -- Washington Post

Eighteen months ago, John Dullahan was an intelligence analyst with a long and varied career in both the military and the classified world. Today, he is jobless and blacklisted from the federal workforce, his loyalty to the United States, he says, brought into question.

He just isn't sure why.

On St. Patrick's Day 2009, the government stripped the Irish-born Dullahan's security clearance and fired him from his job at the Defense Intelligence Agency in a manner that has no precedent at the Pentagon - invoking a national security clause that states that it would harm the interests of the United States to inform him of the accusations against him.

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My Comment: I suspect that his is not the only case in which termination occurred with no explanation. Considering the nature of his work .... I am not surprised that standards for dismissal are probably very low, and in some cases would be regarded as trivial or unimportant in other work places. But the DIA is the DIA .... and they have their own set of rules.