Sentences with phrase «clearance by security agencies»

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But Obama fired Flynn as the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014 — and Flynn's security clearance would have been renewed at the DIA level rather than by the upper echelons of the White House.

Nobody with this kind of exposure to blackmail or manipulation by special interests or foreign intelligence agencies would be able to get a high - end security clearance, and, traditionally, at least, that would have made someone ineligible for a high - level White House position.

The team developed a model that was informed by not only the 2014 Sony attack, but also the theft of security clearance — related information for 21.5 million current and former government employees from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, allegedly carried out by Chinese nationals in 2014 and 2015, and the stealing of electronic files from the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential election that the Central Intelligence Agency attributed to the Russian government.

In a related story reported on ESR News, the private contractor that conducted a security clearance background check on Edward Snowden in 2011 that gave him access to classified documents from the National Security Agency (NSA) that he later leaked to the media is under investigation by the federal government for allegedly conducting inadequate backgroundsecurity clearance background check on Edward Snowden in 2011 that gave him access to classified documents from the National Security Agency (NSA) that he later leaked to the media is under investigation by the federal government for allegedly conducting inadequate backgroundSecurity Agency (NSA) that he later leaked to the media is under investigation by the federal government for allegedly conducting inadequate background checks.