The Washington Post: There’s broad agreement that Uncle Sam needs to tighten up the way he allows federal employees, military personnel and contractors to have access to government secrets. No one argues that more than 5 million people with security clearances is too few.
If that sounds like a lot, it is, especially when only 60 percent of them have access to classified information, according to a report submitted to President Obama this week by the Office of Management and Budget and other agencies. That means about 2 million people hold, or are eligible to hold, security clearances but apparently do not need them.
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