Well, nothing new about mentally incompetent

At the Pentagon’s request, Senate defense authorizers tucked deep within a defense bill a repeal of the department’s restriction on granting security clearances to ex-convicts, drug addicts and the mentally incompetent.

Link: spiiderweb™: Ex- convicts and addicts may get DoD clearance

I mean, I got one many years ago. Case closed.

But ex-convicts?

...recent changes [reported the NYTimes in 2006] have restored voting rights to more than 600,000 individuals, the report said. But because the country’s prison population has continued to rise, a record number of Americans, 5.3 million, are still denied the vote because of criminal records...

So they can get clearances but not vote.

Well, you've got to know who you can trust these days. And somehow I'm thinking that's nobody in DC.