I would argue that rather than priviledge, a clearance is an obligation, a responsibility. To govern effectively, secrecy is needed and must be maintained
The Obama administration et al eschewed secrecy and allowed hacking at many levels.
Brennan and the others are not trustworthy
“To govern effectively, secrecy is needed and must be maintained”
There is too much secrecy in government today at all levels.
Most national defense secrets are leaked to foreign governments. Information on computers is hacked and disseminated. Congressmen, staffers, and bureaucrats with security clearances leak frequently and intentionally. Contractors, like Eric Snowden, possess national secrets and release them for cash or a perceived moral reason. Journalists also trade in government secrets and leak them to advance a political agenda. Politicians have on their own discretion allowed military secrets to be conveyed to potential enemies. Liberal employment policies result in spies being employed in weapons labs, at defense contractors, and in the bureaucracy.
Most “secrets” are secret only from the American people who are kept in the dark and manipulated by government’s control of information and security laws that are never enforced when broken by elites. Hence we live in a nation where a sailor serves a year in prison for sending his parents a photo of his submarine yet a Secretary of State (Hillary) puts national secrets on an unsecure home server and is given a pass.
Time to make government transparent. Why maintain secrecy when our perceived enemies have the information?