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Raine1967

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18. This does indeed change the conversation.

Fri Jun 21, 2013, 06:14 AM

Jun 2013

Government should be the ones who decide who gets these clearance and government only.

A coworker of my husband left the company for another job. He needed a security clearance. About a week after he announced he was leaving, we had a card left by a field agent from the FBI saying basically they wanted to talk to my husband -- who was listed a reference-- about his former co-worker.

That is really not a big deal -- its pretty par for the course when it comes to Gov contracting jobs like that -- what has me really curious at this point is this: did a company like USIS ask the FBI to interview my husband or is the FBI supplying that information to a private company?

This is INCREDIBLY effed up -- and this is how we have a guy like Snowden sitting in Hong Kong - with state secrets (possibly) claiming he's ready to blow the lid on a lot of things.

I hate this.

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Firm that checked NSA leaker being probed [View all] alp227 Jun 2013 OP

D'ya think they may have screwed up? longship Jun 2013 #1

What about his security clearance at the CIA. He worked there. Zen Democrat Jun 2013 #2

Nope. longship Jun 2013 #12

I am shocked. DURHAM D Jun 2013 #3

Yes, how did someone unwilling to betray american values get a security clearance? Right? PSPS Jun 2013 #4

Nail, THWACK, is in. delrem Jun 2013 #14

Regardless of what went wrong Iliyah Jun 2013 #5

If the only thing that came out of this is them getting rid of the damn contractors davidpdx Jun 2013 #10

Whatever they do, it's going to take... ReRe Jun 2013 #16

Ditto. I was also a little concerned about the apparent question in his job history. okaawhatever Jun 2013 #23

It seem that timdog44 Jun 2013 #6

The most Effed up thing here is this: Raine1967 Jun 2013 #7

I agree, see below for my rant davidpdx Jun 2013 #9

This pisses me off more than the allegations about the NSA davidpdx Jun 2013 #8

This is what really pisses me off as well. DURHAM D Jun 2013 #11

I think it is a very valid point davidpdx Jun 2013 #15

This does indeed change the conversation. Raine1967 Jun 2013 #18

That is interesting about your husband's co-worker davidpdx Jun 2013 #19

Fox was actually covering this! LeftInTX Jun 2013 #13

"Totally screwed up letting...er, uh,...our hero get clearance...uh, don't wanna talk about it" Kolesar Jun 2013 #17

It's not hard to get a clearance if one is truthful on the application madville Jun 2013 #20

Investigate the first firm that hired Snowden NotHardly Jun 2013 #21

Blame Cheney and Rumsfield. Cheney began the process of contracting out what previously were politicaljunkie41910 Jun 2013 #22

Why The Assumption RobinA Jun 2013 #24