Justifying a Clearance – Why Need to Know May Become the New Norm
*My article as published @ Clearancejobs.com http://news.clearancejobs.com/2014/03/28/justifying-clearance-need-know-may-become-new-norm/ Bradley Manning, Eric Snowden and Aaron Alexis. These are names of co-workers and fellow employees with security clearance who violated trust. After each incident reviews were established to discover: How did they get security clearances ? How, in the case of the spies, did classified information get taken? In the case of work place violence, how did such untrustworthy and threatening persons get security clearances? A Pentagon report released last week provided an independent review of the Navy Yard Shooting, and asked the critical question – are there currently too many individuals with access to classified information? CURRENT PRACTICE; DEFEND THE PERIMETER Proscribed security measures to protect classified information are in found in government agency security classification guides, policies, instructions and procedures. Where classified inf...