Defence vows to cut security clearance backlog as threat looms

By Doug Dingwall
Updated April 24 2018 - 8:32pm, first published July 21 2017 - 2:31pm

The Defence Department doesn't expect the government will have to strip away its work vetting staff for intelligence agencies, saying it will cut a backlog of top-level clearances by next year.

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