[jonno]

If so, how could she get a security clearance?

[rktman]

Seen plenty of alcoholics with TS clearances.

[Olog-hai]

If John Brennan and Reality Winner could get them, why not she?

[TheBattman]

The same way many others get (and keep forever) security clearances they should have never been granted... the system is jacked up.

[Alberta's Child]

The "security clearance" is probably nothing more than a building pass. With the extensive list of recent employers, I'd say it's likely she is a contractor who has had assignments with a number of Federal agencies, and has had access to buildings just to do her work.

When someone says she has a security clearance with the U.S. Mint, she makes it sound like she's walking around inside a place where she has access to piles of $100 bills. She doesn't.

[75thOVI]

Hillary did.

[Dexter Morgan]

Having been on the inside, a TS clearance is not that hard to get or keep if you’re honest about your lifestyle and history during the screening process. Secret clearances are handed out like candy at a parade. I worked with a lot of people with active clearances who

1. Were severe alcoholics during their employment
2. Had hard-core drug use in their past
3. Participated in deviant sexual behavior, including but not limited to taking advantage of impaired women. These also included women who would become impaired in social settings and then happily tell of their exploits like they were pinning ribbons on their uniforms.
4. Openly talked about their behavior, past and present, as well as shared classified information in non-secure settings after having a few drinks.

There is no moral compass within the government and the worse you are, the more likely you are to fit in with those higher up.

[arrogantsob]

Those were handed out like drivers licenses especially under Zero and Sleazy.

[Hot Tabasco]

If so, how could she get a security clearance?

I was issued a secret security clearance in the Army due to my MOS. No background check, no nothing.

It was even upgraded to top secret within a couple of days after I was the weekend communication center trick chief and a top secret flash message came in over a non secure teletype.......

All I had to do to get it was call my NCO who was off for the weekend who then called the station CO who then took down my report Monday morning. Since I was heading back to the states on Tuesday, the TS clearance was mine when I got back from the 30 day leave........LOL!

With that being said, a typical security clearance as she might have only entails a credit and criminal background check.

Corporations utilize them constantly when hiring individuals for supervisory or management positions..........