Pingree Continues to Fight to Protect Survivors of Sexual Assault Who Seek Security Clearance

Date Posted: Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Category: Sexual Harassment/Assault/Trauma - Maine

Drafters of the final version of the national security clearance questionnaire apparently considered the Director of National Intelligence's April 2013 changes to Question 21 of the Standard Form 86 as provisional. Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (ME-01) is again asking the Director not to force survivors of sexual assault to disclose whether or not they pursued counseling, just as military personnel counseled for combat-related PTSD have long been exempted.

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