7.24.2018

So what are these guys doing with security clearances anyway?

Trump Weighs Stripping Security Clearances From Officials Who Criticized Him - The New York Times

Trump Weighs Stripping Security Clearances From Officials Who Criticized Him

Former high-ranking officials in defense, intelligence, diplomacy and law enforcement usually maintain their clearances to advise those still in government, former officials said. A clearance also serves a more personally profitable function: helping departing officials get jobs at security contractors or similar firms.

Ah. Right.

Italics mine. The rest of it:
{Warning: Paywall.}

Security clearances have always been about need to know. Getting a high-paying job as a lobbyist is not need to know.

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