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> He most likely has an active TS clearance and works with ITAR. Not necessarily. It's as equally likely that he does not have any clearances and could not pa
by techsupporter 4y ago
> He most likely has an active TS clearance and works with ITAR.
Not necessarily. It's as equally likely that he does not have any clearances and could not pass a background check, either with the government or the kind that Twitter's regulatory compliance people want.
In the case of companies that do work with the Department of Defense, it is not unusual for managers to have people who work for them who hold clearances but the managers themselves don't. Where I work, we operate a medical clinic in a federal facility and some of our staff have access to federal employee patient data. As a result, some of our physicians and nursing staff have a clearance as does one of our practice managers and some of our technical staff, but no one else does.
Also, remember that Musk has publicly consumed drugs that are illegal at the federal level and had some very visible run-ins with the SEC. Some federal investigators and companies would not have a problem with that, others very much would.
- kylecordes 4y agoIt might be a simple as: background check that the potential board member has no current or recent SEC matters. That seems like the kind of thing a company might reasonably not want in a board member.
- soheil 4y agoSo you smoke pot on video and you can't be on Twitter's board? Visible run-ins with the SEC is cause for rejecting a board candidate? For none of these claims you provide references. If there is a company foolish enough to adopt these policies it'd be sued out of existence. Or maybe we're about to witness the first occurrence of it.
- elSidCampeador 4y agoVisible run-ins led to a settlement, btw - https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-226 https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-226
- leetcrew 4y agoyou're missing the context of the thread: > He most likely has an active TS clearance and works with ITAR. it's very unlikely (though not impossible for Elon, I guess) that someone could retain a TS clearance after smoking weed in a highly publicized video.