Episode Details

Your life is much more exciting to you than it generally is to the government. Hence many people are unnecessarily concerned that the contents of their SF-86 will somehow end up as fodder for water cooler talk or will somehow be a source of office gossip. The reality is that information included on the SF-86 is covered by the Privacy Act - that means what you include can not be broadly shared.

"For the vast majority of us who has held a security clearance, nobody really cares," said security clearance attorney Sean Bigley. The details of what is and isn't provided on an SF-86 generally comes to light when an individual is a public figure - like Jared Kushner. Or when your career tanks and you find yourself under criminal allegations - like the Department of Energy's Sam Brinton. But as much as we may want to speculate around what is or isn't included, you won't find your SF-86 details published in the media - although they are certainly free to speculate and criticize public figures.

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