Lifetime commitment
When a cleared individual leaves the job or employer for which they were granted access to classified information, they are formally debriefed from the program. Debriefing is an administrative process that accomplishes two main goals: it creates a formal record that the individual no longer has access to the classified information for that program; and it reminds the individual of their lifetime commitment to protect that information. Typically, the individual is asked to sign another non-disclosure agreement (NDA), similar to that which they signed when initially briefed, and this document serves as the formal record. The debriefed individual does not lose their security clearance; they have only surrendered the need to know for information related to that particular job.
SF 312 is the form I believe covers the non disclosure agreement these days....
Yea, I’ve seen similar NDA’s from my time in the defense contractor biz.
Here’s what I’d love to know about such high-level stuff as this: At what point can the operators and people who are not political hacks tell the truth after the politicians have blown all pretense of security out the windows?