Revoke security clearances . . .

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

(07-23-2018, 07:05 PM)Benton Wrote: Well, add me to the list. That seems like a bad policy from a national security standpoint. 

It's only good for two years, and it's basically so that a person with a security clearance can get another job that requires a security clearance without having to get a new one. If you don't get another job that uses your clearance, it expires and you'd have to go through the whole process from scratch to get a new one.

It costs the government something like $10-15k from start to finish to get someone a Secret clearance last I knew, so it allows them to save money by hiring people who they have already cleared.... Otherwise you'd serve your time in the Army as an IT Specialist or something, have a clearance, get out, and 6 months later try to get hired on as a civilian contractor for DoD or some other government agency, or even a defense contractor, and they'd have to do the whole $10-15k expense and time sink of the background checks.

As a side benefit, it's also an extra little boon that the armed forces get when they transition to civilian life, since if you have two people applying for a job, and one already has a security clearance while the other doesn't, it's a pretty easy choice.