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There's a difference between eligibility for a clearance (which is the screening process you refer to) and actually having a clearance. You have a clearance whe
by mpyne 13y ago
There's a difference between eligibility for a clearance (which is the screening process you refer to) and actually having a clearance. You have a clearance when you're at a job where one is required. When you depart that job your clearance is revoked (but the eligibility screening remains). So you don't need to monitor everyone with a screening, just those with an actual in-use clearance.
- jsight 13y agoTrue, but that is still tens of thousands of people.
- vinceguidry 13y agoI just went on Wikipedia to check my rough estimates. I was off by a few orders of magnitude. A WaPo article in 2010 claims 854,000 people had an active clearance. That's a lot of potential leakers. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/24/AR2010082406545.html?hpid=topnews http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08...