Ex-Clinton staffer loses Top Secret clearance

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Wednesday, October 1, 2003 | By Paul Sperry

[JohnHuang2]

WASHINGTON – Though the Homeland Security Department has not terminated a high-ranking department official accused of resume fraud, sources say she's been denied the security clearance she needs to perform her job.

Laura Callahan, the department's deputy chief information officer, was placed on paid leave in June while officials investigate her academic credentials. The advanced degrees she lists on her resume are from a diploma mill.

Callahan's assistant, Jim Shepard, says she is still out on leave and has not been fired.

However, sources say she was denied Top Secret clearance and is appealing the decision. Callahan's lawyer did not return phone calls.

Sources familiar with the case say investigators are also trying to determine when Callahan, a former Clinton official, paid for the phony degrees to see if she back-dated information on her resume and application. She says she got bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees from Hamilton University – a converted motel with three employees in Evanston, Wyo. – in 1993, 1995 and 2000, respectively.

But she didn't mention the Hamilton degrees in March 2000, when she testified in the probe of the Project X e-mail scandal as a White House official. Under oath, she said only that she was "a graduate of Thomas Edison State College in Trenton, N.J.," a junior college.

Her 1992 associates degree is not listed on her official bio, which cites her Ph.D. nine times.

DHS hired Callahan in March from the Labor Department where she held a similar job. She was issued a secret clearance pending a more thorough background investigation.

"That is where the info about the degrees came to light," said one source.

Office of Personnel Management rules list termination of employment among penalties for falsifying academic credentials.

DHS officials did not return phone calls.

[JohnHuang2]

Wednesday, October 1, 2003

Quote of the Day by Pontiac

[martin_fierro]

I remember this b!tch from the "Project X" e-mail scandal. Go get her, I say.

[Free_at_last_-2001]

a Clinton official telling lies! - I'm shocked I tells ya shocked!

[smoothsailing]

Your link is boring.

[jettester]

Just found this by plugging her name into Yahoo and finding a story from Computer World:

This isn't the first time Callahan has been embroiled in controversy.

In March 2000, she was one of two White House officials accused of threatening Northrop Grumman Corp. workers with jail unless they kept quiet about the disappearance of thousands of White House e-mails, according to press reports at the time. Callahan was the White House webmaster under the Clinton administration, and Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman ran the White House computer system at the time.

The e-mails in question had been subpoenaed during congressional and judicial criminal inquiries that included investigations into campaign finance abuse during the 1996 presidential campaign. Callahan testified under oath at a congressional hearing that she never threatened anyone over the e-mails. The outcome of the investigation couldn't be determined.

The link for the article is below:

http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/0,10801,81879,00.html

[Smokin' Joe]

Amazing, simply amazing. A Clinton staffer who had a security clearance!

[backhoe]

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[woofie]

IOs she a friend of Wilson?

[passionfruit]

I wonder if she is the one in charge of safe keeping of all the missing FBI files?

[Consort]

The Clintons replenished the bureaucracy with career civil servant socialists, and the courts with life-long appointed socialist judges/justices. When Bush the elder lost, the country lost...big time.

[nutmeg]

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[martin_fierro]

The ivied halls of Hamilton University, a.k.a. Motel 5½.

[CyberAnt]

I wonder how many more there are like her.

[SkyPilot]

I wonder how their football and basketball teams will do this year?

[patj]

I wonder how their football and basketball teams will do this year?

Oh please, the only letter you can get there is in pillow fighting.

[Gritty]

A clinton official caught lying?

Please. Say it isn't so!!

[Tijeras_Slim]

Amazing, simply amazing. A Clinton staffer who had a security clearance!

She must of got it from www.clearancemill.com.

[maggief]

http://www.fcw.com/events/fed100/2002/callahan.asp


2002 Federal 100 Awards



Laura Callahan
March 11, 2002

Director, Information Technology Center

Labor Department

Callahan was the driving force for key CIO Council security initiatives and provided a risk management framework for agencies producing a draft guideline in 2001. She also oversaw the development of initial versions of the Privacy Assessment Model, which agencies will use to better protect sensitive personal data managed by the government.

[mountaineer]

I wonder how long it would take to find and remove all of the Clinton appointees from the massive federal bureaucracy. Perhaps the Bush Administration should, at least, start cleaning out the State Dept.

[autoresponder]