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21-year-old Pentagon leaker exposed

Pod Save the World

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The Absurdity of Drug Use

I was denied my interim security clearance in, I don't know if I ever told this story at the time. There are people that are denied jobs in the federal government because they use marijuana. And so it's kind of interesting to me that like political appointees who are in charge of kind of like running agencies are kind of scrupulously in a need to know principle. In the military, for a 21 year old IT guy, once you impress your gamer friends on Discord channel, like you can get the crown jewels of the military's intelligence. It's crazy. We're producing as many documents in a year now as the entire length of the Cold War. So whole system needs overhaul

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