07-24-2018, 08:16 AM
Security clearance goes beyond just government positions. Military contractors and other government contractors all have security clearance at varying levels depending on the types of work they do with the government. Those clearances are very valuable as they are expensive to get and the back log to get them now is years, so that industry is struggling to find people that already have them. The reason Trump is going after their clearances is because it impacts their ability to work in these industries and therefor hurts their income. Simply having the clearances doesn't give you access to some database with all sorts of secret information, it simply means you can interact with sensitive information if presented with it.
