Patsy Texeira

Over 1.3 million people have clearance for Top Secret clearance. We had this same discussion with the Chelsea Manning leaks - Top Secret is just not as inaccessible as you think it is.

I doubt very many of those 1.3 million are only 21 and relatively new to the service.

There are hundreds, maybe thousands, leaving every year and needing to be replaced.

Have you never worked an office job before?

I haven't worked an office job before, how is that relevant though?

At least you're being honest. Look, with all due respect to office workers (I've been one myself), it's often not actually that difficult to train new people on the skills involved. It's not uncommon for a team of ten workers to have two really old dinosaurs who have been doing it for a very long time and are there for trouble shooting and passing on know-how, four people who have been doing it for 5-10 years and they can manage themselves because they know what to do, and four people who are really young or really inexperienced but they have the potential to pick it up and learn.

And if it's a team that handles top secret documents, the only difficult part is managing the background checks - which is actually EASIER with young people who don't have much of a background to check; if you check your search engine for "how hard is it to get Top Secret clearance", you'll see all kinds of stories of people saying it's really no sweat at all, especially compared to higher clearances like SCI (I don't even know why we call it "top" secret, if there are higher levels then it's not at the top) - and enforcing discipline on the rules that young people tend to break, which is more about the threat of punishment than about preventing young people from doing that job in the first place. Out of the four young people in a typical team of ten, two of them will probably get bored of the job and quit within a year, one will probably be fired for breaking the rules, and one will prove really trustworthy and passionate about keeping the job.

So, yeah. It DOESN'T surprise me that 21 year olds have Top Secret clearance. It's more to do with what kind of work their team does than about anything else. But I bet you that almost none of them would have SCI clearance.

That's true. The only ones who would get SCI clearance would be the ones who actually required it for their job. Among Air Force, personnel in the old USAF Security Service, which later became Electronic Security Command. (I don't know what they're calling it nowadays.)

It's also a complete nightmare to arrange even for people who need it for the job. If there's ANYTHING in your background that doesn't match your disclosures - maybe something you thought wouldn't matter - the answer comes back as no and they don't tell you what it was.

He was trying to show off to his gamer buddies showing how important he is/ was. Ruined his life

How did he get this information? How was this leak not noticed for 2 months?

Well read about it I guess, I read a few different sources to better understand the situation. Apperently he started sharing in December, playing the "look how cool I am" card, on a private sub group of a sub group, then eventually progressed to sharing more and more, then to settle a couplee arguments or show off, more pics of docs then they started spreading outside of the group into public forums which was when authorities started catching on. It became farely easy when he was on government computer then googleing "leak" to see if anyone was catching on, and well as stupid people do, he would log on using his own ID they caught on pretty quickly. They say a pretty unsofisticated endevour, left a trail. Facing a goid amount of jail time. Dummy

I am, I just find most of the stuff the corporate press is saying is bullshit.

Nah... I'd rather focus on the lies from the Biden regime being exposed...