This page presents a variety of documents prepared by Concerned Foreign Service Officers as discussion documents or aide-memoires to present our issues to interlocutors in the State Department and in Congress.  A matrix of the issues prepared for Congressional interlocutors An Aide Memoire for the HR Bureau, outlining the main issues for discussion between Concerned Foreign Service Officers and senior Bureau officials. Recommendations to the HR Bureau. Concerned Foreign Service Officers recommended ways in which the HR Bureau could facilitate improvement in the process despite DS intransigence. A more-detailed discussion of certain issues targeted to the HR Bureau Does the State Department really follow government-wide standards for adjudication? An essay on the difference between adjudicative and criminal investigations Another way to understand how DS improperly biases the clearance process On good vs bad employees, and the difference between security clearance cases and disciplinary cases CFSO statement on OIG Review of DS/PSS, basis of our complaint to the Integrity Committee. View the OIG report here, with special attention to scope and methodology. Simply put, OIG limited the methodology to ensure that it would not find what we told them about. A letter describing the sort of investigative bias we brought to OIG's attention. OIG did not contact or interview the author. The investigation described was among those OIG reviewed and apparently considered unbiased. DS acknowledged receipt of the letter but never investigated the incident. The agent described in the letter was promoted two months later. He is now an Office Director in DS. A letter to Assistant Secretary Griffin from an FSO with a suspended clearance A similar letter from another FSO A similar letter from another FSO written a year ago - his case continues unresolved. CFSO statement on recent DS IT awards Once again, the State Department wants to hide the problem rather than fix it, placing all employees on LWOP if their clearances are suspended. Cover sheet for the suspension language Suspension of FSOs without pay. Letter from the Chairman of the House Government Oversight Committee accusing State's IG of hiding the truth and falsifying investigation results Krongard does not merely commit fraud, he also intimidates witnesses. Don Reid and Richard Griffin consider DS above the law. Here's one of many examples of what that mentality has led to: Federal Employee News Digest article