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Trump White House's Mishandling of Classified Material

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Rob Porter Is a National Security Scandal, Too

A morally compromised White House staffer may have had access to America’s top secrets. Chief of Staff John Kelly has some explaining to do.



News reports indicate that Porter was granted an “interim security clearance.” That certification is, indeed, quite common in the early days of an administration. Likewise, almost any new government employee who comes in contact with classified information—Secret, Top-Secret, and Top-Secret/Code Word intelligence—goes through this “interim” phase.

If an employee receives an interim security clearance, he or she is allowed by law to serve in positions designated “National Security/Non-Critical Sensitive” or “National Security/Critical Sensitive.” They cannot, however, be given a “Special Sensitive” job, which requires a different level of clearance: Top Secret/Special Compartmentalized Information—also known as TS/SCI or TS/CodeWord.

Only employees with TS/SCI or CodeWord clearance can see our government’s most important secrets. Typically, the staff secretary is one of those very few people. One of the most important.

What does that mean?

It means that the most highly classified secrets in the U.S. government are limited to a very finite group of people. U.S. human intelligence sources may be embedded deep in the government offices in Beijing, or Tehran, or Moscow or Pyongyang—capitals that the Trump administration has identified as America’s prime competitors. If we have sources in those places, they are likely transmitting secrets back through secure channels to Washington. They would typically be given code words—say, Panda, Minaret, Ballerina and Kimchi.

Within each of those channels, only a handful of people has access to top secret information. Those pieces of information are the high holy data of intelligence. Like the Host in a Catholic mass, they are the flesh and word of our all-knowing government—literally, the lives and intelligence of our deepest and most sensitive sources. Each channel is “compartmentalized.” That is, there are very few people who have access to both the Panda channel and the Ballerina channel.

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Only a very, very select group of people has access to all of those channels, and the information that flows through them. That intelligence gets pulled into a daily intelligence summary that goes to the Oval Office—the President’s Daily Briefing—and to a select small group of people. Agents and sources in the field are willing to put their lives at risk only if they believe that the information will be limited to a very limited group of people—among the most trustworthy in the world.

Who in the White House has access to this information?

In the White House, other than the president, it likely to be only the national security adviser, his or her deputy, their chief of staff and the NSC’s staff secretary. It would also include the White House chief of staff, perhaps one deputy, and the staff secretary—the job Porter held. Press reports also indicate that Jared Kushner had access to that information.


https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/10/rob-porter-john-kelly-national-security-216964
 
Sailor will splooge on moonz’s snarky reaction to this thread within minutes of it
 
I hope we don’t see sailor and moonz would support a wife beater without security clearance who likely handled classified info.

But they have advanced stage HDS and will defend anything Trump does.
 
Sailor will splooge on moonz’s snarky reaction to this thread within minutes of it

And Moonz will make a Doritos joke... or he will post the photo of the South Park guy splooging in front of a computer.

3...2...1....
 
I hope we don’t see sailor and moonz would support a wife beater without security clearance who likely handled classified info.

But they have advanced stage HDS and will defend anything Trump does.

you are making stuff up again, can't you defend your views without lying about the people who might disagree with you?
 
you are the one lying here but you have allowed yourself to become so confused that you can no longer differentiate between truth and lies, sad
 
you are the one lying here but you have allowed yourself to become so confused that you can no longer differentiate between truth and lies, sad

I'm done being sad that you've lost your marbles. Now I'm just laughing at you.
 
Well sailor, is this not as egregious as the Clinton email server? Show some courage here
 
sailor doesn’t respond to such questions. He goes straight to insults.
 
The last two words of this thread title could be exchanged for just about anything actually handled by this administration.

Shocking—who could have known?
 
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