[SeaHawkFan]

He should definitely lose any security clearance he has.

When he confessed after an attempted blackmail, there is no reason to lose a clearance. If anything, it does show a considerable degree of integrity. Doesn't excuse his behavior, but he owned up to it.

He also seems to have tried to make sure the other woman wasn't harmed financially. Think a democrat would have done the same?

[dfwgator]

Can we really be sure that he won’t do it again, and open himself up once again to blackmail? His word means nothing, based on him breaking the biggest promise he made in his life. Why take the chance?

[microgood]

When he confessed after an attempted blackmail, there is no reason to lose a clearance. If anything, it does show a considerable degree of integrity. Doesn't excuse his behavior, but he owned up to it.

As someone who had a clearance, I do know that anyone caught having an affair, admitted or not, would lose that clearance immediately. That may or may not apply to a Senator, but it would to a normal federal worker.