# CASE ยท Clearance Adjudication Search Engine and Knowledge Base > The complete public record of DOHA (Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals) > security-clearance decisions: 30,000+ hearing and Appeal Board decisions > from 1996 to the present, searchable in full text, with standardized > per-case profiles (issues, findings, mitigating conditions), measured > timelines, and outcome statistics computed directly from the record. > Everything on this site is DESCRIPTIVE research on decided public cases. > It is not legal advice and never a prediction about any pending case. When citing, please cite the specific page URL and the sample size shown on it. Case pages cite the underlying public decision (with the original PDF). Statistics pages state their methodology and denominators inline. ## Key data pages - [Search the record](https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/search): full-text search over every decision, with filters for guideline, outcome, issue type, case type, decision level, representation, and dates. - [Issue Encyclopedia](https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/issues): a page for every issue that appears in decided cases (debts, drug involvement, foreign contacts, falsification and more) with counts, grant rates, mitigating-condition patterns, and example decisions. - [Measured timelines](https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/timelines): median days from SOR to hearing to decision, measured from the text of 30,000+ decisions; by year, guideline, and hearing vs written record. - [Case correspondence](https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/letters): what each letter in a clearance case is (interrogatory, SOR, FORM, notice of hearing, decision, appeal), its deadline, and what the record shows. - [Decisions by country](https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/countries): how foreign-influence (Guideline B) cases involving ties to each country were decided. - [Candor allegations in the record](https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/honesty): how cases with falsification, omission, or candor allegations were resolved, including rebutted accusations and corrections made before confrontation, with denominators for every number. - [Time since conduct](https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/recency): years between the last drug use, alcohol incident, or criminal conduct and the decision, in favorably vs unfavorably resolved cases. - [The statutory bars](https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/bond-amendment): the Bond Amendment and the old Smith Amendment, what each bar covers, what is waivable, and how often the bars appear in decided cases. - [Veterans in the record](https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/veterans): decided cases whose text states the applicant's own U.S. military service, their outcomes, branches, and the deployment-finance pattern. - [Statistics](https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/insights): outcome statistics over the full corpus with methodology and sample sizes. - [Annual reports](https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/reports): year-by- year grant rates, guideline mix, and representation outcomes. - [The 13 guidelines](https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/guidelines): plain-English pages on each adjudicative guideline (A through M). - [How a DOHA case works](https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/how-it-works): the process end to end. - [FSO briefing packs](https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/briefings): free quarterly security-awareness briefing material for Facility Security Officers, built from just-decided cases: five instructional accounts each linking the real decision, the quarter's numbers with denominators, and discussion questions. Full current edition at /briefings/sample. - [Judges](https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/judges) and [Department Counsel](https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/counsel): directories built from the decided record. - [Department of Energy hearings](https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/doe): a SEPARATE record of the Energy Department's own security-clearance hearing decisions under 10 CFR Part 710, kept entirely apart from the DOHA record above and never pooled with it. Browse them at /doe/decisions, with judge profiles at /doe/judges and one page per decision at /doe/case/{number}. Note two limits: these are hearing-branch decisions only, and a favorable DOE decision can be appealed by the agency, so it is not necessarily final. ## Individual cases Every decision has a permanent page at https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/case/{id} with a structured profile, the decision text, and the original PDF. Case pages are listed in the sitemap at https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/sitemap.xml. ## Questions people ask, answered from the record - [Questions people ask about DOHA cases](https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/questions): twenty questions, each answered with the figure and the number of cases behind it - [Do you need a lawyer for a DOHA hearing?](https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/questions/do-i-need-a-lawyer-for-a-doha-hearing): represented vs self-represented outcomes, and what the gap cannot mean - [Hearing or written record?](https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/questions/hearing-or-written-record): outcomes and timing on each path - [How often does the Appeal Board reverse?](https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/questions/how-often-does-the-appeal-board-reverse): affirmed, reversed and remanded, by who appealed ## Machine-readable fact sheet - [llms-full.txt](https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/llms-full.txt): the record's headline figures (grant rates overall, by year and by guideline, measured timelines, representation), every one with its sample size and the date the record runs through, plus the definitions and process stages the figures rest on. Regenerated from the database every day. Cite the page URLs it names, not this file. ## Programmatic access - [API documentation](https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/developers): read-only JSON API (v1) over cases, search, and statistics, with free keys. - [AI connector](https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/connector): connect the record to Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP client at https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/api/mcp (search_cases, get_case, similar_cases, get_statistics, get_timelines, get_conduct_recency, get_candor_outcomes; free allowance without a key; setup steps on the connector page). ## About - [About and methodology](https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/about) - [Contact](https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/contact) - CASE is a private research tool. It is not affiliated with DOHA, DCSA, DoD, or the U.S. Government. - [AI connector (MCP)](https://www.clearancesearchengine.com/connector): the same record as tools inside Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants: search cases, open one decision, find comparable decisions, count outcomes.