[mac_truck]

She was a Farsi and Urdu/Pashto cryptolinguist (similar languages so easy teach at same time) out of Ft. Meade. The USAF got her clearance. It was cheaper for the contractor to transfer her TS SCI clearance than start a new one for a new employee.

I'm still at a loss as to how with those credentials, Ms. Winner had access to classified documents regarding an ongoing counter intelligence investigation involving the Russians.

Doesn't NSA compartmentalize their data so specialists in one area are limited to accessing only information pertaining to their specialty?

[Azeem]

“Doesn’t NSA compartmentalize their data so specialists in one area are limited to accessing only information pertaining to their specialty”

The same reason I was offered a job in Yugoslavia after I got out of the AF as an Arabic Cryptolinguist. Our specialty is communication intelligence. The Russians and Iranians do talk to each other.