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That’s confidential information buddy
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In a lot of agencies, Confidential isn't enough to do anything. You need a minimum of Secret to do anything at DoD, State, and DHS. Confidential is usually for less sensitive agencies without an intranet. You'll see them more commonly held by janitorial staff, kitchen staff, ect... It's basically just not high enough to let you do much if anything except access a building, and in many agencies it's not even high enough for that.
D 2 In my experience those roles you mentioned would have public trusts, not confidential
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You rarely see C clearances, as D2 said.
What you'll likely see, on the other hand, is Public Trust positions--those are a dime a dozen outside of IC/DOD agencies.
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@D3: Confidential is indeed a clearance, though it isn't used by all agencies or granted that often anymore and has largely been supplanted by PT by the agencies that do PT investigations. From the Department of State security page:
"How many types or levels of security clearance are there?
There are three levels of security clearance: confidential, secret, and top secret."
I'm not sure why you're picking this as the hill to die on, but you're wrong...
https://www.state.gov/security-clearances/
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Yes, public trust... some people don’t consider it as a clearance 🤷🏻♀️
I did when I worked at a defense company doing engineering design work
Although it was a weird system - they cleared you at a secret level and only gave you confidential privileges, so maybe it doesn’t count. Evidently they do it that way so if they need to switch you to more sensitive work, it’s not a problem.
Public Trust is what you may mean.