http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/23/ny-post-former-intelligence-officials-bagging-big-bucks-off-their-security-clearances/
Former U.S. intelligence officials like John Brennan garner lucrative employment in the private sector based on their ability to maintain their government security clearances. Peter Schweizer and Seamus Bruner from the Government Accountability Institute explain this in an op-ed in the New York Post, detailing the revelations in Bruner's new book, Compromised: How Money and Politics Drive FBI Corruption.
http://nypost.com/2018/08/22/ex-officials-actually-use-security-clearances-to-get-rich/
For the more than 4 million private-sector individuals holding clearances, the secretive private intelligence industry is a massive ecosystem, ripe for concealed cronyism. ...
Like Brennan at MSNBC, Clapper cashed in on his security clearance and now provides insights as a high-paid analyst for another major media outlet. Clapper had previously raked in over $200,000 in just six months advising defense contractors such as Booz Allen Hamilton. Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, was accused of lying to Congress and the American people multiple times - even while under oath.
Clapper may have also lied to Congress about his contacts with CNN's Jake Tapper regarding the infamous Steele dossier in early 2017. Clapper initially denied discussing the dossier with Tapper, but later admitted it.
The same network, CNN, hired Clapper in August 2017 as an intelligence analyst, making him "part of the [CNN] family."
In Comey's case, shortly after he was "given access" to the Bush-era NSA surveillance program as deputy attorney general, he notoriously pushed for changes - essentially tweaking the program's "legal rationale." These changes gave rise to the FISA rubber stamp while Comey went on to take a lucrative job with the largest spy contractor in history: Lockheed Martin.
We know Comey's net worth in 2003 was $206,000, which skyrocketed when he raked in well over $10 million in the private sector before he returned to lead the FBI in 2013. Comey bagged $6.1 million in a single year at Lockheed Martin.
Why would Lockheed Martin pay Comey so much money? Well, his access to top-secret program intel is one possibility. Another is what that security clearance provided access to - top-secret contracts from his old buddy, Robert Mueller.
In 2008, the FBI under Mueller awarded Lockheed Martin a contract worth $1 billion. This massive project, called Next Generation Identification, was to build a biometric surveillance program that would essentially turn everyone's face into a fingerprint using facial recognition technology. NGI has since been called a massive and invasive "boondoggle." ...
Interestingly, one of Obama's last official acts as president sought to "modernize" the processes relating to security clearances.
Three days before he left office, Obama issued an Executive Order that consolidated investigative functions in the security-clearance review process. That same day, the Defense Department updated its guidelines for renewals of security clearances, increasing the expiration date for certain clearance holders from five to 10 years, supposedly to address a "backlog" of background investigations.
That last-minute move by the Obama administration quite possibly doubled the amount of time that men like Brennan, Clapper and Comey can cash in on their clearances. ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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