State Department Employee Properly Denied Security Clearance

A former US State Department foreign affairs officer, whose security clearance was revoked after it came to light that he was linked to white nationalism, failed to state a legal claim against the department, a federal court said, dismissing all of his claims on the merits.

The department suspended Matthew Gebert’s security clearance, citing concerns he concealed and omitted information in a routine security clearance interview. Without his top-secret security clearance, Gebert wasn’t able to perform his job in the department’s Bureau of Energy Resources in the Middle East and Asia Division of its Office of Energy Diplomacy. His health ...