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Old 06-13-2013, 09:28 AM  
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Originally Posted by dyna mo View Post
in 2010, the wp uncovered that there were ~850,000 employees in the intelligence community with top secret security clearances.

of those 850k, 250,000 were private sector, contract employees just like snowden.


snowden is representative of the guys snooping up your data in the corporate world and then selling it to the us government.
for the record top secret is a rather nebulous term, I held a top secret level at NASA which allowed me in the DOD firing rooms during a launch cycle

That same clearance wouldnt have gotten me into the urinals at Langley
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