An unnamed woman was denied US top-secret security clearance this year due to being a "close" relative of an authoritarian dictator of an unnamed country, according to a publicly available document from the Defence Department's Office of Hearings and Appeals.The administrative judge in the case ultimately decided to deny the clearance in what appears to be an extraordinary case because the applicant is related to "an extremely bad and dangerous person, a dictator of a country that is hostile to the United States."More than 1.2 million people had top-secret security clearance as of October 2017, CNN previously reported.
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