Originally Posted by ribka
By being vetted in this case is a basic crim background check, short interview and maybe a look at their social media accounts but by no means a thorough security vetting.


All due respect but a TS clearance means nothing these days. And Ive held one one and a TS SCI over 30 years. Ive done security background investigations and vetted foreign nationals.. You can now have heavy drug usage in your past, not pay taxes, lie under oath verbally and on official govt documents, fail a polygraph, close associations with foreign enemies, financial problems, close associations with criminal groups, some criminal malfeasance and get and keep your TS clearance. Changed under Clinton and worse under Obama.

Look at Swalwell keeping his TS SCI clearance and is still on the House intel committee after close romantic associations with 2 Chinese foreign intelligence agents. Look at how many foreign nationals are granted clearance to work in our defense industry research and even our bio weapons research. Ive worked with FBI LEGATS, DOS RSO son security matters and personally witnessed foreign nationals granted clearances that never should have been granted.


Clearances and vetting are a pretty much joke now

Originally Posted by Mackay_Sagebrush
I don't like this socialist takeover any more than the next Freedom loving American, but this is "manufactured outrage" designed to get people mad.

It is clearly working

Even when I was working, doing some high level assignments with the .gov, I had to be vetted to do special assignments, and I was running a TS clearance..

Periodic vetting and special assignment vetting is good business practice. It keeps people safe. Making sure that Staff SGT Joe, who might have racked up a gambling debt of a few hundred grand in the last couple of years that he has not told his wife or employers about, and can't pay off, does not have an opportunity to work protecting Senator Smith who sits on the ABC Defense Committee, or has access to sensitive route information where an IED might be placed, or a kidnap might occur is smart field craft.

The phrase "assess avert achieve" used to be used as a mantra. If you avert a disaster, by never providing the enemy the opportunity, you win.

Actually they were using databases provided by non governmental agencies.
ADL & SPLC.

-OMotS


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