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A USA Today investigation into the problems in the security-clearance program in the Department of Defense revealed a "chaotic clearance program, one beset by strife and a backlog of 600,000 investigations, or one-fourth of the Pentagon's clearance population." Other stories in this series looked at variety of security-clearance related issues including "how dozens of foreign nations sought to gather intelligence at US defense plants on technologies used in sophisticated weapons systems" and "how the top lawyer in the Defense Security Service was reassigned to another agency after warning superiors they were violating government regulations by taking shortcuts on security background investigations."