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Vernii
Dec 7, 2006

Best Friends posted:

They did exactly this to Aldrich Ames to piss him off apparently. To this day there is a lot of back and forth on if he ever actually was important within the CIA. It's been long enough though that there has been a synthesis of these two ideas, and now his wikipedia entry describes a total drunken loser flunky who also had a lot of important assignments.


edit - which actually seems pretty believable.

Years ago in GBS there was a thread where someone found a public database of security clearance request cases. No names or identifying information, just case numbers and summaries of the candidate and whether it was approved or rejected.

Turns out you can have quite a history of drugs or sex crimes, but debt or dual-citizenship is basically a deal breaker.

EDIT: If anyone knows which one I'm talking about, I'd love to explore it again, was hilarious.

Vernii fucked around with this message at 03:28 on May 30, 2014

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