On security clearance

Here we go again. Much ado about nothing. I have had security clearances with four different governmental agencies from Secret to Top Secret/ SBI/SCI. Once I left the position requiring the particular clearance, I was debriefed, signed the nondisclosure and other documents, and the clearance ended. The standard policy for, I guess, peons.

Continuing security clearances for high-level personnel no longer in positions requiring them is, in my opinion, against standard policy and shows favoritism. It is a practice that needs to end and it needs to end now.

Instead of complaining about losing a clearance they should have never kept, they should be grateful for the time they had it until it was revoked.

Whenever I left one employer for another, I was required to complete all security paperwork so my new employer could request and review all my dossiers from the other agencies and do any updated investigation if needed.

Having a security clearance is a privilege, not a right, and for these ex-employees to carp about no longing having it is ludicrous.

For everyone’s information, John Brennan admitted to voting for the Communist Party’s presidential candidate in 1976. If I had done the same, I guarantee I would never have been granted a clearance. How this man was ever hired by the CIA and served in the positions he has is beyond me. Thanks, Bill and Barack, for keeping him.

This whole practice stinks and makes me wonder about who else has clearances that they should not have and what they may be doing with them. MARY WALKER Mountain Home