As required for this position, TEIXEIRA holds a Top Secret security clearance, which was granted in 2021. Based on my training and experience, I know that acquiring his security clearance, TEIXEIRA would have signed a lifetime binding non-disclosure agreement in which he would have had to acknowledge that the unauthorized disclosure of protected information could result in criminal charges."
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Some military career fields require a Top Secret clearance and the soldier doesn’t even leave their tech school until the clearance is issued. Depending on how long the background check takes this can be a lengthy period of time.
Nothing strange about that, but accessing classified info isn’t just based on clearance, but also on a “need to know” and it’s always the case the cleared soldier is GIVEN access to classified info once a need to know has been determined.
So the bigger question is who gave this guy access to these classified docs?