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Those are all big red flags, and reasons why you wouldn't get a clearance. What seems clear in this case is that they dropped the ball in choosing who to allow access to their material and computers in the first place."

Ross Schulman, a cybersecurity expert at the Open Technology Institute at New America, on the ability of Harold T. Martin III, who walked out of the NSA with highly classified materials, to keep his security clearance despite a record that included drinking problems and unpaid tax bills.