On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 02:25:04 GMT, james wrote
in :

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 17:02:26 -0700, Frank Gilliland
wrote:

+Actually that is one of the lower security clearances and is not that
+difficult to get and maintain. IF you have no criminal background, no
+membership in subversive organizations and not in severe debt, then
+this clearance is easy to get.
+
+
+Unless the system has changed in the past 20 years, there are three
+levels of security clearance: 'confidential', 'secret' and 'top
+secret'. It is -not- "one of the lower security clearances", and it is
+-not- easy to get.
******

Well My brother holds a secret clearance and his job grade was down
graded from top secret. I thought he mentioned that was the lowest
clearance and he was glad to be there and not at top secret. But then
I maybe wrong and Frank you maybe right.


If his clearance was "top secret" he shouldn't have even told you. If
he -did- have it he probably lost it -because- he told you.


Besides I never could see the reason for top secret to track satellite
launches either, but there at one time must have been. He would never
tell the reason and I never pushed the issue out of respect for the
clearance and his job.


I take it that you've never heard of spy satellites? Space-based
weapons? Even some of the less-than-secret communication satellites
and space probes have very hot nuclear materials for power and need to
be tracked just in case they fail to reach orbit (it has happened
before, and because of it the entire planet has now been exposed to
Plutonium 239).


Why security clearances are issued and required is not always very
obcious. I think in part it is what budget the department has and what
the DoD determines is necessary for the job grade.


Most government secrets are justified, but a lot of secrecy has to do
with the government breaking it's own laws and international treaties.
That's not just a fact -- it's a time-honored tradition.







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