This guy was evidently a trouble-making gay activist in school. And he was busted back to corporal for some offense, details not made public.

Why was he allowed to enlist? Why wasn’t his secret clearance taken when he was busted? Where were his superiors during all of this.

There is also basic “need to know.” His job involved access to secret files on Afghanistan. Why was he permitted access to secret files everywhere else? There is just ONE secret database for ALL military and state department secrets, and a corporal had access to the whole thing?

Finally, why was he permitted to bring read/write CDs into the office? It might have said Lady Gaga on the label, but it also would have said that it was CD-RW. What the hell was the matter with his supervisor?

All rhetorical questions, I suppose. I was the classified documents clerk for my company for a while, back in the sixties, and no one ever bothered to supervise me at all. Except for an occasional lieutenant passing through who gave me a perfunctory uniform check. But I didn’t have access to top secret information all over the world, only classified documents about the radar systems we were working with.

And, it must be admitted, an occasional secret document having nothing to do with our job that somebody passed down the line so I would be the guy who had to take it out and burn it. That’s how I knew about claymore mines before they were used in battle. But I kept my mouth shut.

I keep on wondering how he had access to so much data. My husband and I worked for the same company, and we both had top secret clearances.

At times, we worked on different projects. I wasn’t allowed into his project area, and he wasn’t allowed into mine.

The secure data was always on removable disks that would be locked away when someone wasn’t on the computer.

I just can’t believe he had access to so much data.

"Why was he allowed to enlist?
Why wasn’t his secret clearance taken when he was busted?
Where were his superiors during all of this."

His superiors were attending Dr. Hasan's lectures getting stoked up to murder,
or on Jihad themselves, or were getting briefed and indoctrinated by John Brennan
on the pRes_ _ent Obama's MOTTO, adopted by the US Pentagon:

"Jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam"

In military circles, I have read much speculation that he had to have “help” with this project. Nobody really believes he did it alone on his own initiative.

I don’t know enough to understand why, but I do trust the ex-military personnel to know how these things work.

I also wonder why there were no alerts that info was being downloaded. There is simply no way to avoid leaving electronic footprints, whether being downloaded, copied, printed, etc.