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Stinky The Clown

(67,799 posts)
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 12:49 AM Feb 2018

About security clearances - or the lack thereof

A lot of the people in the TrumpHouse are working without clearances for one reason or another. A lot of them we know had contact with Russians.

A lot of them get to see really hush hush, high level, secret decoder ring type stuff.

Why is no asking if any of them are passing shit to the Russians.

You KNOW its possible. You KNOW it.

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ResIpsa

(212 posts)
1. I held a security clearance for disaster relief..
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 12:51 AM
Feb 2018

It was so in depth you wouldn't believe it. By the time I was done...70+ pages of intimate information...and 5 sets of fingerprints. Bush Admin lost my Identity after all that. DHS even. Kinda lost my appetite for Federal Disaster Work and went back to the Red Cross.

 

ResIpsa

(212 posts)
3. And I don't recall anything about a temporary clearance..
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 12:57 AM
Feb 2018

you answered the questions and did it absolutely correctly, or they didn't issue the clearance. And, after reading the instructions, you didn't expect one. To say they were very specific is an understatement.

doc03

(35,338 posts)
4. Years ago I worked at the telephone company in Washington. I was told if my NSA clearance
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 12:58 AM
Feb 2018

wasn't approved on 6 months I would terminated or moved to another office.

doc03

(35,338 posts)
8. Nobody ever told me that I received it until I found out a couple years later
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 01:32 AM
Feb 2018

when I got drafted in the army. I noticed in my file it said prior NSA clearance issued. I know
investigators talked to some of my neighbors.

tblue37

(65,370 posts)
5. We know Trump has passed code-word intelligence to them (right in the Oval Office!),
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 01:06 AM
Feb 2018

and in fact, were he not the president, he could never pass a security check.

He and Jared owe so much money that quite apadt from kompromat, they would probably be willing to share tidbits for a bit of money. And we know Jared was trying to set up a secure back channel for communicating with the Russians.

Russian intelligence has always known how to turn well-positioned targets to get them to pass along useful information (in other words, spying).

 

ResIpsa

(212 posts)
7. When I applied for the C.I.A.
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 01:11 AM
Feb 2018

student loans were enough to be blackmailed. Also during the Bush Admin.

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