Posted on 06/08/2017 7:32:12 AM PDT by Morgana
I mean, she is incapable of discernment... as in 'completely lacking' the experience, intellectual means or maturity to assess things properly and reach 'reasoned', valid conclusions or to make sound decisions.
“Winner, who was working in the Georgia office of contractor Pluribus International, allegedly printed out a top-secret document last month and mailed it to an online news outlet, which was not named in court documents.”
Yup. Possibly complicite too.
That's debatable.
Don't confuse clearance with background check. I was a linguist in the Air Force, as well. I've been out for more than 20 years, but it still works pretty much the same way.
When we first enlisted, we got a comprehensive background check for the clearance level needed. There are multiple levels of clearance, depending on the job to be done.
My first 14 months in the Air Force required absolutely no clearance level besides a basic background (criminal/financial) check that everyone entering the service went through. This got me through Basic Training and the language course at the Defense Language Institute (DLI). By the time I graduated from the DLI, my comprehensive background check was completed, and I was granted the appropriate clearance for my second-level training which occurred at Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo, TX.
When I left Goodfellow, to go to my first actual duty assignment in Korea, I was debriefed from my clearance at the training school, and my clearance was temporarily suspended until I reached my duty location. I was not allowed to enter any classified facilities until my clearance was re-instituted at my formal duty station. The same thing occurred when I left Korea for my next duty station at Davis-Monthan.
I was debriefed, and clearance was suspended.
I got my five-year follow-up while I was stationed at Davis-Monthan.
While I was at Osan AB in Korea, I was originally assigned to come back to Fort Meade, MD, to work at the NSA. That assignment required a deeper investigation (not sure how, because I was only 18 going into the AF, and I'd been theirs for 2.5 years at that point), and a Polygraph examination, which I passed.
Eventually I passed on that assignment, stayed in Korea a second year, and then got the Davis-Monthan assignment, which did not require a Polygraph.
When I processed out of the Air Force after just under seven years (had to extend my original 6-year to get to D-M, as they required 3 years retainability), all clearances were revoked, and I was basically given the paperwork saying there was a lifetime ban on me talking about anything classified from my job, under severe penalty.
My background investigation was still good if I wanted to go civilian, or re-enlist, but my clearance was revoked.
Usually, there is supposed to be a follow-up investigation prior to hiring on anywhere else a clearance is required to cover any period between exiting the service and being hired into the new job.
Moreover, all NSA employees and contractors are required to pass a full-scope polygraph. How the hell did she pass a full-scope?
Clearance and background check are two different things.
My clearance was revoked upon exiting the service, but my background check was still good for a few more years if I'd stayed in. Clearance is always revoked upon leaving service.
Before she started her job working as a contractor for the NSA, they would have had to investigate the period between her leaving the service, and her getting the job that required the new clearance. Her old background check would have been good up to her exiting the service. Not all clearance levels are the same, and some require a considerably higher level of background investigation than others. Someone failed.
Nothing in the leaked above top secret NSA report had anything to do with the Pakistan/Iran/Afghanistan.
There is simply no reason an outside contractor specialist like Ms Winner had access to it.
It amazes me that Congress wastes its time investigating a Trump/Russia connection while stuff like this goes unattended.
Same person who hired the Awar brothers?
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