Of course administrative procedures need to be looked at.
A larger problem that is pervasive in the intel community is nepotism and connections.
Who you know matters as much as any background vetting. How do you vet an 18 year old that has so little life experience to judge?
You don’t, vetting largely relies on those connections you have with others already cleared.
In Texeira’s case, his stepfather is Master Sergeant Thomas P. Dufault. He retired from the same 102nd Intelligence Wing after 34 years in 2019, the same year Texeira joined.
Being a “legacy”, Texeira would have had instant trust and easy access to all the intel he wanted.
But, how did he manage to get hard copies of all that intel off the base to his home, where he photographed the pages of intel? Hard copies are each index numbered and he had to then get them back on base before they were noticed missing.
That's the smoking gun.
He didn't.