[Grampa Dave]

Help an old man out with my question below:

In today’s world does one have to be born in America and have American parents to get a TS/SCI clearance besides being checked out personally for most of your life.

[Reily]

No longer required, not my idea just stating fact.

Probably hasn’t been true since the late 1970s.

[wtd]

Grampa Dave wrote: "Help an old man out with my question below:

In today’s world does one have to be born in America and have American parents to get a TS/SCI clearance"

Sorry, I have no idea what the 'current' rules are. It does seem like government 'rules' are quite elastic given the last few administration's application of any pre-existing ones.

FWIW:

• Independent journalist Jason Goodman of CrowdSourceTheTruth confronted Hillary Clinton at her book signing event in Manhattan today and questioned her about Imran Awan and why he was able to run a “spy ring,” in Congress. Hillary simply laughed while the Secret Service grabbed Jason's camera-pen

[Liz]

QUESTION: In today’s world does one have to be born in America and
have American parents to get a TS/SCI clearance besides being checked
out personally for most of your life.

Depends on who's president (smirk).

[ASA Vet]

Negative. We had a lady who was German born in our ASA unit. Her parents were also German. She married an American GI shortly after WW-II. She came to the US with him at age 17. She naturalized as soon as she could do so which was at 3 years when married to a US Citizen. That would have been about 1965.

She joined our ASA USAR unit about 1980 and passed the SBI for her TS/SCI. She already was fluent in German of course. She picked up MOS 98G at Ft. Devens. Later she went with us to Germany and worked live mission. That was shortly before the fall of East Germany and the USSR.

She went on to become a Warrant Officer in our unit.

Her husband has since died and she's retired and living in Florida.

She is the only case I'm aware of where a naturalized Citizen obtained a TS/SCI, but there must be others. Uncle doesn't make exceptions for just one person.