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Originally Posted by mikesouth
Oh theres oversight and lots of it, when you apply for that clearance it takes over a year usually (back then) to get it and in the grand scheme mine was very low...they talk to everyone you ever knew...high school teachers, friends, enemies they try to dig up everyone they can.
Then after you get it you remain under increased scrutiny even after your clearance expires.
No amount of all of that will prevent someone from going rogue, thats just how it is. Personally I think his exposing this was a good thing, our government has gone way beyond what should be acceptable.
did ya ever notice how all that shit Nixon got impeached over is now legal?
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i hear ya but snowden was investigated 5 years back from the date of his securty investigation and that was the end of it. and that was even before he worked for booz. so booz never checked him out, his one and only cia security check cleared him for the length of his stay in the intel bidness, based on what i've gathered.
moreover, that's not what oversight is. oversight is setup to double-check that process you just described.
also, by all accounts of the experts who have been paid to evaluate the intel community, there is no accountability and zero structure. this entire world exploded exponentially after 9/11 with billions & billions thrown at it. hard to keep track at that level of growth, based on the folks in the know looking at that aspect of it.
it's ~impossible to have oversight in an environment like that.
it's too big, it's too ineffective and it needs to be way way way scaled back