IN THE “IF TRUMP DOES IT, IT’S WRONG” attack for the day, a retired CIA director is claiming the president is not nice because the president canceled the retiree’s security clearance.
The operative word is “RETIREE.”
No longer on the job.
SOMEONE GETTING HIS 15 seconds of tv fame suggested that any retiree that had a security clearance for a job should keep that clearance so the retiree can help a replacement “get up to speed.”
The replacement needs a security clearance for the job.
There is nothing the retiree can convey to the replacement that requires the retiree to maintain a security clearance.
I am a retired Enterprise Risk Management practitioner.
Do I need a security clearance to tell an NCIS manager how to protect NCIS secrets? Hardly. (Been there, done that.)
- Reminds me of the comment: “You don’t have to be a chicken to know how to make an omelet.”
I used to work with an ex-Navy guy who had a better-than-Top Secret security clearance. Nice guy and he needed his clearance from time to time when our defense contractor bosses needed to buttonhole someone with a similar classification.
He received his super classification while in the Navy. It should have been canceled when he got his DD 214 (on discharge). It could easily have been reinstated if needed for his civilian job.
Would the former sailor need a security clearance to lie on the beach?
No.
How about a city cop?
Again, no.
In other words, when the clearance is no longer necessary for the job, CANCEL IT.
Save the information and make it easy for the person whose clearance was canceled to have it reinstated, albeit possibly at a lesser security level appropriate for the new job.
A former CIA boss working for my former company may need a security clearance, but surely the clearance need NOT be at the same level as it was when the person was in charge of the CIA.
When a new administration takes office, political appointees are expected to tender their resignations. The new administration will accept or reject the resignation as it deems proper. (Perhaps you will recall one of Obama’s appointees refused to offer his resignation when the Trump administration took over. The Democrats caused a major flap over what was Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for previous administrations; the media crucified the new president for demanding the resignation when it should have been automatically tendered when the new administration took office. It should have pilloried the appointee for failing to follow basic customs and courtesies.
The same thing should apply to security clearances.
When the person retires/resigns, the clearance is “retired” as well.
When a president, who presumably has a very high security clearance, leaves office, the security clearance is terminated, or, if the former president gets a new position within the government, a lesser clearance.
I’m just a simple taxpayer, a retiree who currently has no clearance. I do not need nor want a clearance.
The same should hold true for retired spooks and presidents.
PLAGIARISM is the act of appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of his writings, or the ideas or language of the same, and passing them off as the product of one’s own mind.
Truth is an absolute defense to defamation. Defamation is a false statement of fact. If the statement was accurate, then by definition it wasn’t defamatory.
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