SECURITY CLEARANCES

The question has been raised about how could Edward Snowden received a security clearance.  This article discusses the broken security clearance system. The Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee details the problems, but in brief here is the summary:

But the hearing did prove what McCaskill said in her opening statement: OPM is a “government agency where there is rampant fraud, limited accountability, and no respect for taxpayer dollars.” It also revealed how easy it was for Snowden to get access to the nation’s most sacred secrets.