I've actually learned quite a lot from her.
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So I'm standing in a parking lot in Newport News, Virginia this morning, as you do, and this rather loud plane comes in from the West. One of the kids says 'ooo that's loud', so I look and say 'and big....wait it's a 747...you don't get to see many of them any more' and not ten seconds later, Air Force One flies right overhead so close we could have seemingly hit it with a long stick.
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Not surprising at all, of course. In fact, California is actively pursuing new legislation which would enhance the regulations at issue. It also goes without saying that pushing this will undermine the Administration ‘s deference to the choices of wingnut-controlled legislatures.
Meanwhile,
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1021474178032173056?s=21
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/s...032173056?s=21
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They usually do (I certainly did), but there are cases in which it can be useful for senior people to retain them to assist on on-going cases. Actually providing classified information to someone who has left the government (with or without a clearance) should be a separate question.
I also think that the practice has become more widespread now that the universe of “contractors” with clearances is so massive.
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The thing I found, as did my squad in general, with my SY clearance was that as long as you were honest about stuff that could leave you open to blackmail (sex, drugs, debt, booze, proscribed organisations, as a rule) then you were ok . It was when people tried to game the system and forget to tell them (Home Office Vetting Officers) that they drank a lot or used to do pills that they were knocked back, we lost about 10% of our intake for that, whereas I was quite open about my recreational drug use prior to enlisting and got my DV (Developed Vetting) with minimal fuss. Although none of our lot ran a property empire backed up with dirty money, well as far as I know.
As Ursus says contractors are a different matter entirely, we lost our DV as soon as we left the military, whereas (what used to be, dunno if still is) a List X contractor would not be a full-time employee of Her Maj, but hazarding a guess they would have to be re-vetted every 3 or 5 years.
Also pretty certain that in the UK disclosing confidentially marked material above a certain level is a breach of the OSA.
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The US rules for contractors were the same the last time I had reason to examine them (for a Fort Meade area IPO).
It's also worth noting that a number of things that happen all the time over here would be violations of the Official Secrets Act.Last edited by ursus arctos; 23-07-2018, 23:37.
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