Posted on 03/08/2019 3:43:50 PM PST by wastedyears
The Department of Defense is weighing whether to suspend or revoke the tech entrepreneur’s security clearance for his SpaceX private venture that launches spy satellites for the federal government following an incident last year where he smoked a marijuana cigarette during an appearance on a comedian’s podcast, FOX Business has learned.
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Do his employed peeps get drug tested for hiring background sreening?
He got bad press during the cave rescue of those boys. Now, this.
Reminds me of the DOD firing its top general, Patton, for supposedly slapping a private. Not his finest hour if it happened, but there are other ways. Even the Germans were astonished at the stupidity.
Have the Pentagram brass ever checked Hillary out?
Pentagram — Pentagon. Maybe I am on to something.
I believe they want someone else in charge of his company. Kinda like Libya!
Idiotic of DOD.
By the way, anyone else notice he was the golden boy who could do no wrong....until he outed that British pedophile when the kids were stuck in that cave. Inside of 6 weeks the SEC was all over him, DOD launched investigations, and now 2 months later he is plutonium.
You may not criticize pedophiles. Hits way too close to DC for the comfort of our leaders.
A person’s security clearance can be revoked for illegal drug use. Super genius Elon should know that from his initial security briefing.
I scanned through the comments first... OMG. Is it meaningless that the CEO of a company with national security implications so easily parades his use of drugs in front of the world? His actions set the TONE FOR THE ENTIRE COMPANY.
So do they think that just because Musk has his clearance that all the sudden Tommy Chong will be demanding one for himself?...Come on, man!
“Have the Pentagram brass ever checked Hillary out?”
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Being falling down drunk is her badge of honor. No need to check her out because she would never transmit top secret documents on a private server or anything like, you know, with a cloth.
Yeah, it’s basically meaningless. The real issue is that he outed a pervert, and DOD and SEC and the US Govt are stampeding people into mindless Musk hate now.
They know people are mostly like a herd of buffalo that can be stampeded with a few waving blankets. Don’t ask me to care about a billionaire taking a toke when the CIA/FBI/State are in the middle of a coup.
They didn’t take Hillary’s clearance until she decided she didn’t need it. This is a farce. But it’s refreshing to see some people take government actions at face value.
If it was not for bad judgement Musk would have no judgement at all.
This country is getting better and better at punishing the makers and rewarding the takers.
I don’t know nearly enough about the DOD or what Musk’s company is doing with them to form an opinion either way.
But I LOVE your post! :)
You speak the truth in no uncertain terms.
There is effectively a coup attempt going on.
SEEMS to me he would have been taken aside and told don’t do that EVER again.
But i could be wrong.
Hahaha!
Bee-yoo-tiful!
Everyone in the industry (not working for Spacex) is probably pushing every button they can to get Musk tossed out. Spacex is at least 10 years ahead of every other competitor and 10 times cheaper.
ULA, Blue Origin, Ariane, the Russians (whatever they call themselves) and the Chinese will take a decade to even get close to where Spacex is today. I can only imagine where Spacex will be in 10 years.
The above is my opinion. Feel free to have a different one.
I have held a security clearance for over 30 years. When states started legalizing marajuana, we all received letters informing us that durg use was still a Federal crime. We were also informed that if we were ever caught, our clearance would be immediately revoked.
Drug not durg.
If it was not for bad judgement Musk would have no judgement at all.It's not bad judgment it's he's full of himself arrogance.
The way everyone, including here, fawns over the jerk he thinks he can do no wrong.
His real genius is how well he's scammed the tax payers out of OUR money with pie in the sky ideas and really no outcome to speak of.
Musk = a modern day Ponzi with taxpayer instead of private money.
The real genius of it is he knows their is no pyramid scheme. The taxpayer money is endless as long as he can keep up the flim-flam man scam.
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