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I mean, I'm not sure what screening could have prevented this. The Office of Personnel Management screens all military clearances. You basically write your history down, put down people who knew you at various times, and they interview those people and ask if you're a trustworthy person.

What magical screening process would you like them to do?

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We live in surveillance state where random citizen can have their online life fully monitored. And you are asking what could be done? Why don't you fully monitor by default private lives of individuals that have that kind of clearance?

With great power there should come great scrutiny.

Trusted person is defined as someone who can violate the trust.

Less intrusive solution would be just monitor all the data everybody accesses and spot the unusual data access patterns. Corporations already do that. Army not doing it is a mockery.

The worst part is they could design a system with 99.9999% false negative rate and still have a few leaks a year.

That we don’t have more leaks is really a good question.

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