Remove all security clearances once the employee retires. Their clearances are necessary to do their job. They have no need to retain those privileges once they no longer are employed so to said job. They shouldn’t be able to sell that access to the highest bidder.
It’s the equivalent of letting a former employee keep a key to the backdoor after they quit. Doesn’t make sense
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Agree totally.
Do it now and while you’re at it, revoke security clearances for all the idjits who called Hunter’s laptop Russian interference!
I see where youre going but thats not how clearances work.
Youre thinking of it as a badge or a key that gets you or somebody else into something you normally wouldnt have access to.
A security clearance is essentially an investigation to determine a persons risk
The higher the clearance, the more in depth the investigation and the quicker it expires.
Generally when a person leaves a position where they had a need to access specific classified material, they no longer have access to methods to access classified material. The only exception being, the individual takes a another job that requires them to have a clearance (which a lot of transitioning military members do)
Revocation is a costly investigative process that only occurs for securtiy risks
Generally if a person doesnt take a job that requires an active clearance it will expire after 2 years of being dormant
Even if they do take a job that requires a clearance, they have an expiration date when a reinvestigation is required.
Regardless, a security clearance doesnt just give you free rein of all things spooky and super secret. Generally anything of consequence is hidden behind additional layers called Secret Compartmented Information (SCI) and Special Access Programs (SAP). These require further investigations and “read ins” that determine the need for access and explain their use.