Court Dismisses Claim That Security Clearance Revocation Was Based On Religious Issues

In Hegab v. Long, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 6203 (ED VA, Jan. 19, 2012), an employee of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) claimed that his security clearance was unconstitutionally revoked on the basis of his wife's Islamic religion, her constitutionally protected speech and her employment by an Islamic faith-based organization.  The court dismissed the suit on the basis that review of an agency's security clearance revocation is precluded by the Supreme Court's 1988 decision in Department of Navy v. Egan.