[r9etb]

One of the things about being a civilian defense contractor is that your employer (the DOD, when all is said and done) gets to say whether or not they're comfortable with you, personally, being on their base, doing their work.

Mr. Cook's recent activities are sufficient cause for them no longer to be comfortable with his presence.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Good point. Even if you’re not at the customer’s facility, they have wide latitude as to who works on their contracts. If you work for a company that has no commercial work, only DOD, you’re pretty much hosed. If your clearance is pulled, you are extra hosed.

[ravingnutter]

One of the things about being a civilian defense contractor is that your employer (the DOD, when all is said and done) gets to say whether or not they're comfortable with you, personally, being on their base, doing their work.

We refer to the USAF as the "Customer"...with a capital C ; )...and yes, they totally control who we hire and terminate. I have had only one instance in 20 years, however, where they specifically requested we terminate someone without cause and while I didn't believe it was fair to terminate someone based on a "personality conflict", we did what they requested by eliminating that position and they transferred those duties to a civil service employee. DoD Contracting is a whole other world unto itself, standard business practices do not apply.

[ClayinVA]

True, but they didn’t check with their lawyers before they did this. On the Reserve side of the everything would have been proper and legal, now that they jumped over and pulled his civilian side, they have a problem. So basically they have pulled his civilian security clearance because he filled a lawsuit and that is retaliation. Now he has standing because he was injured.