[ExI] openness on the internet, was RE: Destructive uploading.

[Kelly Anderson]

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:16 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
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>>... On Behalf Of Kelly Anderson
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> Interesting aside: when a person goes through the security clearance
> process, they investigate everything about a person's life, in ways far more
> intimate than a proctology examination.
>
> Here is what I find interesting.  They can clear people who have done
> illegal stuff to some very limited degree, such as the last three presidents
> who all admitted to doing drugs but not inhaling.  The commander in chief
> kinda needs top level clearances, BUT!  ...the wrongdoing must be public
> domain knowledge.  What they really work to find is anything for which a
> person can be blackmailed.  That they take very seriously as they should.
> If a person has done illegal drugs and admits to it, so that no one can hold
> them hostage with the info, then the clearance process can continue.
>
> Weiner was blackmail-able.  After the Monica thing, Bill Clinton was
> blackmail-able bigtime, and if you read her testimony, Monica did in fact
> attempt to blackmail the guy.
>
> If a person has spilled everything about themselves into the public domain,
> so long as it isn't technically illegal, they will likely not have a
> security clearance denied for withholding information.

A security clearance is easier to get than a vote... :-)  And votes
are what really count to people like Weiner.

-Kelly