Posted on 02/14/2018 5:55:01 AM PST by donna
White House officials now say that more than 100 staff members -- at least one of them with routine access to classified material -- have failed to obtain government security clearances, mostly because of "procrastination."
White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers is among what she said are about 10 percent of the 1,044 White House staff members who have not completed the FBI clearance process that produces the first level of clearance for access to classified material. Myers said she has routine access to secret material.
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Drug problems?
Security clearances are only important when there is a Republican president. (Yes, I know that this article refers to the Clinton administration...)
And what the hell good is it when *certain* people with clearances do things like — uh, HAVING AN UNSECURED PRIVATE SERVER IN A CLOSET? Etc...
And, not only is the offender not punished, the security clearance is not immediately revoked.
The President can de-classify anything. And re-classify anything. Right?
So BJ merely changed the classification status of things as needed for his staff.
I wish I could claim I am just joking, but I'm not sure it wasn't true...
I’m sure their clearances were up-to-date with the Russians.
The White House FBI files controversy of the Clinton Administration, often referred to as Filegate, arose in June 1996 around improper access in 1993 and 1994 to FBI security-clearance documents.
Craig Livingstone, director of the White House’s Office of Personnel Security, improperly requested, and received from the FBI, background reports concerning several hundred individuals without asking permission.
The revelations provoked a strong political and press reaction because many of the files covered White House employees from previous Republican administrations, including top presidential advisors. Under criticism, Livingstone resigned from his position.
Allegations were made that senior White House figures, including First Lady Hillary Clinton, may have requested and read the files for political purposes, and that the First Lady had authorized the hiring of the under-qualified Livingstone.
Source: Wikipedia
This is crazy. Swamp is very slow at getting clearance’s right now. I have a family member who works in the pentagon. And that family member has been on a temporary for almost two years. This is the Swamp, not Trump. There are tens of thousands of people who work on temporary clearances at any moment while working on Top Secret stuff. And by the way, Porter is not a risk for selling secrets. He is a political risk. So this story is nothing but a story. It depends on readers not understanding that temporary clearances are very common and last years.
It didn’t bother the Democrat media at all as they gushed about what a terrific president Clinton was.
Were I President Trump and Sara Sanders I would cancel the press briefings for the rest of the month. Every question yesterday was about Porter’s wife abuse, and he was fired a week ago. Not one question about that laughable CYA email that Susan Rice sent herself on the afternoon of President Trump’s Inauguration.
Fox News is as bad as the rest of them. They are as hung up on Porter as CNN was on the missing plane story.
Actually, it is no longer uncommon for clearances to take this long. Ever since the OPM website (the website used to enter your personal information for clearances) was hacked, it has been taking at least 2 years for a top secret clearance and another 6 months for special compartment clearance. It used to only take about 18 months for all of that.
ANYBODY REMEMBER THIS WIFE BEATING SCANDAL?
Shattered Dreams (1990) TV movie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090008/
Survivor of a Violent Marriage, a Former Washington Official’s Wife
http://people.com/archive/survivor-of-a-violent-marriage-a-former-washington-officials-wife-recalls-years-of-abuse-vol-28-no-24/
Sunday, June 24, 2001
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,141253,00.html
I sure don't.
The elite women of this country are so out of touch with reality.
The Porter story doesn't exist in the real world.
Clinton Administration 1994
Clinton Administration 1994
Not a prank - perspective.
Why so long AFTER the hack? Did they add bad information?
AFTER YEAR, 15 WHITE HOUSE AIDES HAVE YET TO RECEIVE SECURITY CLEARANCES
More than a year after President Clinton took office, 15 White House aides, including press secretary Dee Dee Myers and another unidentified senior official, have yet to receive security clearances because they failed to complete necessary paperwork, administration officials said.
As a result, Myers and the other aides have not received permanent White House passes and are operating on “temporary passes.” (snip)
Hell, I was doing a contract project for the federal government. It lasted two years. I applied for my clearance in the first couple of days. Two years later, walking out the door, still no clearance. (Though I proceeded through my daily grind in those two years as if I did have clearance).
“Actually, it is no longer uncommon for clearances to take this long.”
Clearances have been a hindrance even longer than the Clinton administration. I know for a fact that my TS background investigation was conducted long before I received my commission in the Army thru ROTC in 1977. I went home from college for a weekend to my small town and it seemed everybody I knew was buzzing about the investigator being in town asking questions about me. Yet, when I was commissioned, went thru the Field Artillery Officer Basic Course, and then was assigned to my missile unit in Germany, I was still not cleared to handle nuclear release material, the main reason for the TS background investigation. It was at least 6 months in the unit before the paperwork caught up with me.
No, I think it’s great. I’ve been bringing up this exact story to others ever since the first guy in the Trump white house was axed because he was found wanting in some way.
I’m glad this was posted.
I don’t think that was the case prior to the Clinton Administration (speaking of the White House security, not overall throughout the government. That may indeed be a longer term issue.)
Gary Aldrich explained this dynamic in his EXCELLENT book “Unlimited Access”.
He was the FBI agent assigned to the GHW Bush and Clinton administrations with the responsibility for administering security permissions for the staffers, cabinet members, and other people in the White House.
He said that he never had problems doing his job before the Clintons, and when they came in, they stonewalled, delayed, or outright evaded or delayed his security interviews. They had people working there for years on temporary passes.
And they did this “in your face” evasion of the security process with the full knowledge and approval of every senior person in that White House including the President and his wife.
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