quickfix,
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this. I have not reached any conclusion on whether "Criminal's" post is substantially true or false. However, the arguments you've adduced would not lead me to conclude with 99% confidence, as you do, that this story is bullshit, for reasons I'll explain below.
quickfix wrote on May 31
st, 2020 at 8:52pm:
This story scores a 99 out of 100 on the bullshit scale. It is full of telltale clues indicative of someone making up a story, and on this site, it's easy to spot. First, this so-called story could not have happened 20 years ago, since JPAS did not exist 20 years ago.
The author did not claim that these events took place 20 years ago, but rather between 1 January 2000 and the date of posting.
Quote:Second, the test questions referred to would constitute a full-scope polygraph.
I agree with you on this.
Quote:None of the agencies who administer full[scope testing use JPAS, so the so-called "incident report" would not have been made in JPAS.
I think you are mistaken about this. In 2017,
U.S. News & World Report reported about an employee who "began work at the ODNI's Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive in May 2010." According to a 2014 report by the Office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, "Between June 10, 2013 and July 2, 2013, [the employee] ran JPAS record searches for Edward Snowden 357 times under three of her accounts [with outside contractors] while at ODNI facilities during duty hours."
Edward Snowden was an NSA contractor (with Dell and Booze Allen Hamilton) and was subject to full-scope polygraph screening. It seems unlikely that an ODNI employee would have done hundreds of JPAS searches on him if, as you aver, "None of the agencies who administer full[scope testing use JPAS."
Quote:Third, contractors are hired for specific duties, so their access is limited. And if his badge and clearance were revoked, he would not have made a "ton of money", as foreign intelligence makes every attempt to pay as little as possible for highly classified information. Even if the storyteller had a photographic memory, he would not be able to sell anything, much less for a "ton of money". Foreign intelligence does not pay for information in one's head.
Your analysis here is highly speculative. Some who have sold classified information have received relatively large sums for it, such as Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen. Information that a former cleared person knows in his head can be quite valuable, for example if it concerns the identities of U.S. intelligence assets abroad or details of expensive SIGINT systems.
In addition, because vast amounts of electronic documents can be and have been secreted out of SCIFs, even by people who had no apparent plan to sell the data (see, for example, the case of
Nghia Hoang Pho), it is not necessarily the case that the only information "Criminal" could have sold is that which was in his head.
Quote:Finally, "loss of jurisdiction" has nothing to do with revocation or suspension of one's clearance. It means that the clearance adjudication process was halted because the person was no longer being considered for employment, or moved to another job with another agency and the former agency has no vested interest to continue the background check.
For a person whose job was not in background investigations or making security clearance determinations to misuse an arcane bit of jargon such as "loss of jurisdiction" is weak evidence, if it is evidence at all.
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