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More than a million people have top secret clearance in the US[1]. It's very difficult to ensure security in that context. [1] https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08
by seanhunter 4y ago
More than a million people have top secret clearance in the US[1]. It's very difficult to ensure security in that context.
[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/15/politics/classified-information-what-matters/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/15/politics/classified-infor...
- croes 4y agoThat's my point, top secret isn't the right term if more than a million people have access. It's not enough to call it top secret, it has to be handled as such.
- seanhunter 4y agoYup I was agreeing with you. It's interesting that in this sense scale harms the objective. As you increase the apparatus of the intelligence machine, you inevitably reduce its ability to be genuinely clandestine just because you have to allow more and more people behind the curtain.