The Importance of Need to Know

There's a principle that is essential in the intelligence community of need to know. If you don't need to know, you're not going to get that access, no matter what your clearance levels are. This guy, this 21-year-old, did have a need to know to some extent because he was an IT guy. The same thing happened with Snowden. He was just an IT contractor that was moving classified documents from one system to another. Well, guess what? He needed access to those classified documents. So there is a vulnerability with these IT people that essentially have God Mode access to the system in some of these cases. And I think we have to look at that.