[donna]

Clinton Administration 1994

Drug problems?

[DJ Frisat]

Security clearances are only important when there is a Republican president. (Yes, I know that this article refers to the Clinton administration...)

And what the hell good is it when *certain* people with clearances do things like — uh, HAVING AN UNSECURED PRIVATE SERVER IN A CLOSET? Etc...

And, not only is the offender not punished, the security clearance is not immediately revoked.

[dayglored]

Nah, no problemo.

The President can de-classify anything. And re-classify anything. Right?

So BJ merely changed the classification status of things as needed for his staff.

I wish I could claim I am just joking, but I'm not sure it wasn't true...

[moovova]

I’m sure their clearances were up-to-date with the Russians.

[poinq]

This is crazy. Swamp is very slow at getting clearance’s right now. I have a family member who works in the pentagon. And that family member has been on a temporary for almost two years. This is the Swamp, not Trump. There are tens of thousands of people who work on temporary clearances at any moment while working on Top Secret stuff. And by the way, Porter is not a risk for selling secrets. He is a political risk. So this story is nothing but a story. It depends on readers not understanding that temporary clearances are very common and last years.

[txrefugee]

It didn’t bother the Democrat media at all as they gushed about what a terrific president Clinton was.

Were I President Trump and Sara Sanders I would cancel the press briefings for the rest of the month. Every question yesterday was about Porter’s wife abuse, and he was fired a week ago. Not one question about that laughable CYA email that Susan Rice sent herself on the afternoon of President Trump’s Inauguration.

Fox News is as bad as the rest of them. They are as hung up on Porter as CNN was on the missing plane story.

[TejanoJim]

Actually, it is no longer uncommon for clearances to take this long. Ever since the OPM website (the website used to enter your personal information for clearances) was hacked, it has been taking at least 2 years for a top secret clearance and another 6 months for special compartment clearance. It used to only take about 18 months for all of that.

[donna]

ANYBODY REMEMBER THIS WIFE BEATING SCANDAL?

Shattered Dreams (1990) TV movie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090008/

Survivor of a Violent Marriage, a Former Washington Official’s Wife
http://people.com/archive/survivor-of-a-violent-marriage-a-former-washington-officials-wife-recalls-years-of-abuse-vol-28-no-24/

Sunday, June 24, 2001
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,141253,00.html

[robroys woman]

Clinton Administration 1994

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That’s the first thing I thought when I read the headline. I was guessing it was just an old story thrown up as a prank.

[robroys woman]

Clinton Administration 1994

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And naturally, I was correct.

[iontheball]

Not too many years ago the Bureau averaged 90 days for a full-field background investigation, which cleared you up to Top Secret. Differences mostly depended on your past overseas time.

[Hatteras]

Hell, I was doing a contract project for the federal government. It lasted two years. I applied for my clearance in the first couple of days. Two years later, walking out the door, still no clearance. (Though I proceeded through my daily grind in those two years as if I did have clearance).