#security-clearances

#security-clearances

Commanders and security personnel review posts to identify potential threats to operational security, assess character and judgment, and ensure service members uphold the standards expected of those in uniform. Understanding what triggers military scrutiny can help service members navigate social media responsibly while avoiding career-damaging mistakes. Military regulations explicitly permit commanders to review publicly accessible social media accounts when mission requirements or security concerns justify it.

While scanning for unsecured databases at the end of September, an ethical security researcher stumbled upon the exposed cache of data and discovered that it was part of a site called DomeWatch. The service is run by the House Democrats and includes videostreams of House floor sessions, calendars of congressional events, and updates on House votes. It also includes a job board and résumé bank.

She also "got 37 individuals'" security clearances revoked by National Intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard after the conspiracy theorist targeted them online, Warner said in a video posted to YouTube Wednesday evening. "When is the purge going to end? This is the kind of thing that happens in authoritarian regimes," Warner told reporters Thursday. "You purge your independent intelligence community and make them loyal not to a constitution but something else."

The FBI's actions were hard not to read as payback for Bolton's years of criticism of the president, even as the facts that persuaded a judge to approve a search warrant remain unknown. That's the problem with a politicized legal system-even if an investigation is legitimate, it's easy to assume that its motives are corrupt. Trump has spent years vowing retribution against Bolton, particularly after Bolton published a 2020 memoir that portrayed the president as incompetent and out of his depth on foreign policy.

The FBI on Friday raided the home of John Bolton, Donald Trump's former national security adviser and currently one of his most vocal critics. Agents entered Bolton's private residence in Bethesda, an affluent neighborhood in northwest Washington, as part of an investigation into the alleged use of classified documents by the former senior official, according to reports from the New York Post and the AP agency.

On Tuesday, Tulsi Gabbard announced she was stripping the clearance of 37 current and former spooks, in a thinly veiled political purge. NYT provides background on some of the people Tulsi purged, including Vinh Nguyen, who was purged because he allegedly pressured Tulsi's so-called whistleblower to affirm conclusions in the 2017 ICA, but who had remained in active service as a crucial contributor to NSA's quantum computing efforts until this purge. This purge clearly places loyalty to Trump over America's most crucial intelligence efforts.

Norwegian and Swedish-Danish postal groups Posten Bring and PostNord are pausing parcel shipments to the United States ahead of the scrapping of a US customs tax loophole that allows duty-free entry for low-value packages, they said on Wednesday. President Donald Trump's administration said last month it would suspend the global de minimis exemption, which also allows minimal paperwork, for international shipments under $800 from 29 August.

politicizing and manipulating intelligence, leaking classified intelligence without authorization, and/or committing intentional egregious violations of tradecraft standards.