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WTF ! When I worked for Lockheed Martin, I had a TS clearance but with it came a lot of responsibility. First and foremost is the protection of classified information. Procedures to do that had to be followed. Second, if you did not need to know the information, you avoided looking at it - need to know basis. When I had to deal with classified info, I went out of my way not to look at it or to know it. Luckily in my position, I was a Sys Admin - my job is to keep the computers running, therefore, it was very easy to avoid knowing the information.

The pilots laptop, if it had actual classified information, why wasn't it guarded to where it didn't get lost such as being in a safe ? In my career with LM, I had to carry classified information one time - I was required to do this. I preferred not to do this. It was emphasized that I was to carry it from point A to point B, no stops of any kind either. I made sure I got gas before I went to pick it up. When I got to my destination, I insisted the security person for the facility was there to receive it, therefore, it was in my possession for the shortest amount of time.

The pilot did not have DoD TS information on that computer. Period.

It might have been Homeland Security TS, or Podunk Airline TS, but it was not DoD TS.