(06-07-2017, 10:24 AM)pirkster Wrote:

(06-06-2017, 06:12 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: If she did indeed leak classified info to the press, then she does need to face the consequences of her action(s).  Some people just don't take clearances seriously enough... especially the younger ones.

Those who give out clearances don't appear to be taking them seriously, either.

Unless they set her up to out herself...

Either gross incompetence or a trap that was sprung.

Could be a bit of both.  IMO "intelligence" has been so outsourced and politicized they are far from where they need to be.  Poor controls, inefficiency, and a subpar product.

But if they are starting to catch such leakers purposefully - it's a good start.  You can't protect the country if you can't keep your own house in order.

I don't think it was a trap.  It was just shoddy research. 

I know that when I had to get my clearances because the comapnay I was working for at the time had contracts with the State Department and ICE.  My background check was actually completed by the FBI, and they were thorough for sure.  They did everything short of a colonoscopy. 

In reading some of the reports, she was hired because she could speak multiple dialects of Arabic, and had served in the military.  My guess is that the company she was working for did the preliminary background checks, but didn't bother to look at her social media accounts.  Had they done so, she'd probably just be another unemployed millennial doing audition tapes for The Real World, Survivor, or Big Brother.  Gotta live up to that name somehow.

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