Ever wondered, what are the circumstances under which the security clearance is revoked?
LA Times sheds some light on tolerance for any VIOLATIONS by those holding security clearance.
An intelligence analyst temporarily lost his top-secret security clearance because he faxed his resume using a commercial machine.
An employee of the Defense Department had her clearance suspended for months because a jilted boyfriend called to say she might not be reliable.
An Army officer who spoke publicly about intelligence failures before the Sept. 11 attacks had his clearance revoked over questions about $67 in personal charges to a military cellphone.
So, faxing resume using office fax machine, being deemed unreliable by a jilted boyfriend, and charging $67 on a military cellphone, were all deemed offenses for which security clearance was revoked.
Seems like there is a ZERO TOLERANCE policy.
How about leaking a covert agent's name--an agent who was an expert in the area of Weapons of Mass Destruction? No action yet. And it is more than 2 years since the leak occurred.
Next time any Republican says that Democrats are soft on national security, let's throw this in their face.