
How Federal Classification Works (and why it’s a problem)
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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Why Is There a Security Clearance Question?
As of August 2022, around 1.3 million people in the U.S. had some kind of top secret security clearance. That doesn't mean they all hang out in a bodehays esque library joking about who really killed JFK. They also don't get universal access to everything. It's a messy bag of badgers.
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