Comments on: Trump is passing out security clearances like Tic-Tacs… https://habitablezone.com/2019/04/01/trump-is-passing-out-security-clearances-like-tic-tacs/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:41:18 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2019/04/01/trump-is-passing-out-security-clearances-like-tic-tacs/#comment-43164 ER Tue, 02 Apr 2019 19:58:58 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=76485#comment-43164 This is like the "Hillary emails" in spades. Except it can't be passed off as laziness or sloppiness, its just plain abuse of power. But of course, its different when Democrats do it, isn't it? Needless to say, nothing will come of this. As long as one political party is determined to overlook every crime and malfeasance committed by their side, while fully investigating and prosecuting every crime committed by the other, and as long as a substantial portion of the population refuses to express their outrage, this sort of thing will now become part of the political culture in this country. Spend your tax cuts wisely, and quickly, the full bill will come due eventually, and it will be payable in Hell. This is like the “Hillary emails” in spades. Except it can’t be passed off as laziness or sloppiness, its just plain abuse of power. But of course, its different when Democrats do it, isn’t it?

Needless to say, nothing will come of this. As long as one political party is determined to overlook every crime and malfeasance committed by their side, while fully investigating and prosecuting every crime committed by the other, and as long as a substantial portion of the population refuses to express their outrage, this sort of thing will now become part of the political culture in this country.

Spend your tax cuts wisely, and quickly, the full bill will come due eventually, and it will be payable in Hell.

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2019/04/01/trump-is-passing-out-security-clearances-like-tic-tacs/#comment-43163 ER Tue, 02 Apr 2019 02:18:19 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=76485#comment-43163 They even interviewed my friends ( have no idea how they got their names!). As far as I can tell from memory, the form hasn't changed much. The classification is hierarchical: Confidential, Secret, Top Secret, SCI (Special Compartmented Information). It took about six months to get my clearances. And then they told me I couldn't smoke any more dope. I didn't learn anything that didn't show up in the press, eventually. As Mr Spock once put it (when they stole the Romulan Cloaking Device); <em>"Military secrets are the most fleeting of all."</em> They even interviewed my friends ( have no idea how they got their names!). As far as I can tell from memory, the form hasn’t changed much.

The classification is hierarchical: Confidential, Secret, Top Secret, SCI (Special Compartmented Information). It took about six months to get my clearances. And then they told me I couldn’t smoke any more dope.

I didn’t learn anything that didn’t show up in the press, eventually. As Mr Spock once put it (when they stole the Romulan Cloaking Device); “Military secrets are the most fleeting of all.”

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