We’ve mentioned how the biggest employer in the US is wasting our tax dollars. Everyday we read the headlines that Medicare has discovered billions of dollars of overpayment. Or we learn that the Postal Service lost billions and needs to raise postal rates. But lately another story has emerged. Jack Teixeira, a low level IT Tech, was arrested for using social media (again a weapon) to distribute Top Secret information to impress his buddies. At first we thought this was a simple case of immaturity but then the “rest of the story” was revealed. This young man had a history of violence, gun involvement and other questionable activities. You would be right to ask how such an individual received top secret clearance with that kind of record? Are we so inept at the Federal level so as to hand the nation’s secrets to a potential domestic terrorist? Whoever failed to properly vet this man should be fired. If the process used is flawed the person whose job it is to fix that process should be fired and the process should be fixed. We literally cannot afford incompetence at the national security level. Let’s see how the US Government deals with this case.

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