Unlocked doors and ‘locker room talk’ cost guard his federal clearance

The Service flagged eight concerns. It sustained three. 

The first: dereliction of duty for failing to secure doors on two dates in January 2022 and failing to keep the required security forms. The guard conceded the doors may have been “left open” on one date but said the forms were completed and misplaced. The Service concluded it was “more likely true than untrue” that the failures happened. 

The second was a January 29, 2022, confrontation with another officer. Both were armed. The guard said the other officer provoked it; Hana’s account had the other officer trying to disengage while the guard followed him into a hallway. The Service found the guard was “the primary aggressor.” 

Third was conduct. Hana reported the guard labelled colleagues who reported his door-locking lapses “snitches” and “rats” and confronted another officer for going to management. He described the remarks as “a regular occurrence akin to locker room talk between officers.” That did not land. 

Two counts were withdrawn. Three others, tied to conduct predating a previous favorable determination, were mitigated and played no part in the final decision.