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US intelligence boss to AP: Security clearances are 'broken'
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Posted on 02/13/2018 9:38:48 AM PST by Java4Jay

The U.S. government's system of security clearances for top officials is "broken" and must be completely overhauled, the Trump administration's intelligence chief told The Associated Press.

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Checking federal employees and private contractors is a laborious process that requires an extensive background check and an effort to judge a person's trustworthiness. Ninety-five percent of all background investigations are conducted by the National Background Investigations Bureau, which does some of the work itself and contracts the rest to private firms.
1 posted on 02/13/2018 9:38:48 AM PST by Java4Jay
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To: Java4Jay

Didn’t the Very Special Agents of the FBI used to do this work?


2 posted on 02/13/2018 9:40:34 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Java4Jay

At the hearings, wish someone asked Wray how Huma ever got her clearance. If she did, that is.


3 posted on 02/13/2018 9:40:45 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (SEDITION! Obama DOJ colluded to try overthrow the President!)
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To: Java4Jay

First clue there was a problem was when a sketchy character named Hussein was snuck into the oval office.


4 posted on 02/13/2018 9:41:51 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Java4Jay

Do Hillary and Huma still have their clearances?

What about strozk and page?


5 posted on 02/13/2018 9:42:02 AM PST by z3n
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To: Java4Jay

The Clinton’s broke the process, in 1992.


6 posted on 02/13/2018 9:43:36 AM PST by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables

We now know Huma was traveling back to Saudi to visit her parents who are big in the Muslim Brotherhood. How does that work?


7 posted on 02/13/2018 9:47:15 AM PST by Oldexpat
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She probably took Weiner’s laptop with her, too.

Great way to get classified intel to the enemy; without having to worry about the NSA sniffing and storing these emails as they transferred over the Internet. No link as to who they were sent to beyond that little bitty mistake—without intent, of course—that Hillary made by sending them to Huma in the first place.


8 posted on 02/13/2018 9:50:40 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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"The Clinton’s broke the process, in 1992."

Exactly.

I'm sure they had plenty of help from go-along-to-get-along Republicans.

In retrospect, it will probably be seen as an outcome of having the Baby Boom generation in charge.
9 posted on 02/13/2018 9:51:08 AM PST by indthkr
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To: Java4Jay

Back in my Q clearance days in the 80’s it was done by the Office of Personnel Management. They would go around and talk to all of your friends, family, and neighbors.

The initial screening was done by contractors


10 posted on 02/13/2018 9:52:54 AM PST by shotgun
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables
A good read about how the Clintons got their clearances (but should not have) by Gary Aldrich

Unlimited Access


11 posted on 02/13/2018 9:52:55 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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It is completely broken. OPM is incompetent and the loss of taxpayer money due to delays and thus the inability to support the mission is almost incalculable.


12 posted on 02/13/2018 9:54:59 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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It is completely broken. OPM is incompetent and the loss of taxpayer money due to delays and thus the inability to support the mission is almost incalculable.


13 posted on 02/13/2018 9:54:59 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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Ninety-five percent of all background investigations are conducted by the National Background Investigations Bureau, which does some of the work itself and contracts the rest to private firms.

My daughter has a friend who does this for one of the private contractors. His resume prior to that consists of fry cook at Wendy's and doing desktop support for a local government.

His main qualification was that he was willing to move to a remote West Virginia town where this job was located, thanks to the largesse of the late Robert C. Byrd.


14 posted on 02/13/2018 9:55:41 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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Yep. While at MIOBC and MICCC, my observations to the 901st and 902nd were “round filed”. Reports: infidelity, lying to your superior officer, bringing electronics into SCIF, foreign born spouses, anti American feelings, etc. They just didn’t care.


15 posted on 02/13/2018 9:56:04 AM PST by DCBryan1 (Quit calling them liberals, progressives, or Democrats. Call them what they are: COMMUNISTS!)
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The Clinton’s broke the process, in 1992.

This. The Clinton WH had top people running things who were NEVER qualified for security clearances. They just ignored the requirement.

16 posted on 02/13/2018 9:57:14 AM PST by Paine in the Neck ( Socialism consumes EVERYTHING!)
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To: Java4Jay

Hillary, Huma, and Obama’s selling out the country to the enemies has proven that its broken.


17 posted on 02/13/2018 9:57:55 AM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: rjsimmon

I reference that book ALL-THE-TIME on this issue. That was when security REALLY became broken. I was going to write a lengthy post until I saw yours...beat me to it!

The Clinton Administration, from the aides up to the President and First Lady (and everyone in between) not only DID NOT comply with security requirements, they openly, and with the full approval of everyone at the top, ignored, ridiculed, and flaunted security requirements.

There were people who worked there for years on temporary passes!

You know all this, you read it...I recommend it to all Freepers.


18 posted on 02/13/2018 10:01:15 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette)
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To: Java4Jay

How did Hillary get a security clearance? Or Obama for that matter?


19 posted on 02/13/2018 10:04:39 AM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw
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To: DCBryan1
In the 70’s many security checks were done by DODNACC department of defense national agency check center. Army administered, field agents talked with lots of people. Drugs, alcohol, mental health, criminal records and more such as close relatives in foreign countries or having relationship to questionable organizations and you got no clearance!
20 posted on 02/13/2018 10:05:06 AM PST by cotton (one way, one truth, the life.)
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