[Infowarrior] - Supporting EFF = security risk?

[Richard Forno]

Potential Blind Spots in Clearance Process that Gave Snowden Top-Secret Access

The quote below is from Nicole Smith, an "associate attorney at Tully Rinckey PLLC in Washington, D.C., and a former security clearance investigator."

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In a photograph posted online after Snowden revealed himself, his laptop displays a sticker touting the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a longstanding advocate for online rights and staunch opponent of government surveillance. That would have been enough of a warning sign to make it into his file, Smith says, but investigators wouldn’t have come across it because clearance interviews aren’t performed at their homes: “You’re not around that person’s personal belongings to make any other additional observations about that person’s characters.”

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Read more: http://nation.time.com/2013/06/15/potential-blind-spots-in-clearance-process-that-gave-snowden-top-secret-access/#ixzz2XQlNz0rI


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