I have wondered at length about that. It seems that once again they have ignored a basic tenet of security: need to know.
In what world does an E-nothing in the MAANG need access to some of the stuff he had (and it’s the same argument vis-a-vis Bradley Manning)?.
My wife and I have both held very high clearances. She was an engineer and had to go into a SCIF to view certain drawings and she was the only one in her group who could, including her boss,because she had the “need to know.”
Back in the day the USN took that very seriously. That’s how you keep secrets secret.
Just why did Mr. Vindman, a low-level type assigned to the NSC with apparently hundreds of other bozos, have access to Trump’s calls to the president of Ukraine?