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Who In The Hell Hired NSA Leaker Reality Leigh Winner After Her Twitter Rants?
The Doctor of Common Sense ^ | June 8, 2017 | E.T. Williams

Posted on 06/08/2017 7:32:12 AM PDT by Morgana

Who In The Hell Hired NSA Leaker Reality Leigh Winner After Her Twitter Rants?

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 6; anonymous; coupplot; dak; dakotaaccess; dhs; edwardsnowden; hacking; iran; nsa; pipeline; realitywinner; russiagate; smallgroup; twitter; wikileaks
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To: pepsionice
I didn't mean ‘discernible’.

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.

41 posted on 06/08/2017 9:33:24 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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To: bk1000

“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.”

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/06/531722218/what-we-know-about-reality-winner-government-contractor-accused-of-nsa-leak


42 posted on 06/08/2017 9:38:34 AM PDT by HollyB
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To: CriticalJ

Yup. Possibly complicite too.


43 posted on 06/08/2017 9:54:50 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: KC_Conspirator
Most likely she was cleared years ago when she was not radicalized and has not been up for clearance renewal during that time.

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.

44 posted on 06/08/2017 9:56:33 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees! - Kipling)
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To: Morgana

Moreover, all NSA employees and contractors are required to pass a full-scope polygraph. How the hell did she pass a full-scope?


45 posted on 06/08/2017 9:57:16 AM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: pepsionice
Clearance would have been wrapped up and she would have passed. Her ‘stupid’ comments probably all come after November of 2016, after the renewed clearance.

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.

46 posted on 06/08/2017 10:01:01 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees! - Kipling)
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To: Azeem

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.


47 posted on 06/08/2017 10:47:20 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Morgana

Same person who hired the Awar brothers?


48 posted on 06/08/2017 10:53:57 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Morgana
Maybe someone did take note of her social media rants, and set her up for a sting. Who is the orange one now, Reality?
49 posted on 06/08/2017 11:18:43 AM PDT by Cecily
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