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Pentagon officials said his security clearance would have to be restored by a separate arm of the bureaucracy in a process that usually takes months. You'd th
by ma2rten 11y ago
Pentagon officials said his security clearance would have to be restored by a separate arm of the bureaucracy in a process that usually takes months.
You'd think that they'd make an exception and speed up the process for the head of intelligence.
- detaro 11y ago"usually", so yes, I'd assume they would speed it up if they started it. But it doesn't seem like they want to, since they are not convinced he is "clean"?
- leoc 11y agoYes, sounds like a bureaucratic stalling action.
- hudibras 11y agoThe problem is he's not yet cleared from the still-ongoing federal case. The feds need to release him from that before the adjudication authority can make a decision.
- ma2rten 11y agoThe context of the sentence I quoted said: Even if Branch were cleared of wrongdoing by the Justice Department and the Navy tomorrow, he would face a much longer wait to regain access to military secrets.