Well I don’t know about other FReepers, but I always assumed that all clearances were always dependent on actually having a job which had a real need to know things.
I think that is the way things should work. Always. For everyone. Completely.
This sort of seems like an out-of-control mess.
Actually.
I’m sure I am not alone in feeling this way.
Congress hands out its own security clearances to itself and its own staffers. The FBI only investigates after there is a serious security breach, but the FBI can’t revoke clearance. Note the great Awan coverup.
you may have hit a nerve there.
Without a need to know how is this beneficial in their post-govt jobs.
They cant talk about anything they have seen past or present.
How does this prevent from doing their post govt job. Contractor jobs would be more about who you know. Helping beltway bandits get the inside track on contracts. Again their security clearance has nothing to do with it.
They are not a perk, they are a necessary process to secure secrets that are necessary for the security of the country.
To talk about a security clearance in the context of being an analyst on a tv show is insulting to critical thinking Americans.