[Mariner]

"I still don’t understand how a low-level enlisted punk like this had access to so much classified info. When I was in the military, there was a “need to know” provision. You only had access if you had the appropriate level of security clearance and “the need to know” this information for your job."

All the info is now digitized and stored on servers. The is a small, select group of people who administer access privileges to the various (10's of thousands) servers which hold the information.

If you're one of those who admin that access system, you can give yourself access to anything.

However, these folks have the HIGHEST TS/Crypto/Specat/Limdis clearances available...and in the OLD days went through a Special Background Investigation...and lie detectors before getting such clearance.

They better question is: How did this guy slip through the system...even with lie detectors?

[palmer]

What it boils down to is why would a grunt have bulk access as opposed to one-record-at-a-time which can be audited?

[1010RD]

Is there a mysterious lover in the shadows? Someone unhappy with current DADT military policy?