Two on Security Clearance
Richard Bejtlich talks about the backlog in security clearances in “Opportunity Costs of Security Clearances,” using an anecdote about an unnamed agency trying to hire someone “clearable” to train to do complex work that requires particular skills and orientation.
Meanwhile, at Cutting Edge of Ecstacy, Mark writes about “A Mexican man who used a fake U.S. birth certificate to get into the Border Patrol was helping to smuggle illegal immigrants, authorities said yesterday,” in “The Enema Within.”