{"id":199570,"date":"2007-07-13T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-14T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/13\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-53\/"},"modified":"2007-07-13T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-14T01:00:00","slug":"whiskey-tango-foxtrot-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/13\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-53\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clearances for Felons?<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/blog\/secrecy\/2007\/07\/ssci_warns_against_clearances.html\"><span>SSCI<\/span> Warns Against Clearances for Ex-Convicts<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">.<\/span><\/span><br \/>The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence endorsed a statutory prohibition that prevents the Department of Defense from granting security clearances to former convicts who have served a year or more in jail, individuals who are mentally incompetent, are drug addicts, or have been dishonorably discharged from the military.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon had requested a repeal of that provision, first enacted in 2000, and the request was approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The [Intelligence] Committee understands <span>DoD&#8217;s<\/span> desire to have more flexibility to give clearances to otherwise qualified individuals who are currently barred from receiving or renewing their security clearances.&#8221;<br \/>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They are so short on  people that they want to clear felons?<\/p>\n<p>But still, they are engaging in anti-gay <span>witchunts<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>Welcome to our broken military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clearances for Felons? SSCI Warns Against Clearances for Ex-Convicts.The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence endorsed a statutory prohibition that prevents the Department of Defense from granting security clearances to former convicts who have served a year or more in jail, individuals who are mentally incompetent, are drug addicts, or have been dishonorably discharged from the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1030,1006,1061],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbtq","category-military","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}