BA> Back when I handled classified material = and I handled a LOT of it
 BA> over a period just shy of 20 years (evern wrote some of it) - your 
 BA> access to material was limited by your need to know it.  If you 
 BA> didn't need it you just didn't get access to it, period.

in this case, we can thank 9-11 for it... there was a great wailing and
gnashing of teeth about not sharing information between the services so
that the information could be seen in a much larger picture and possibly
prevent another 9-11 from happening...

when they allowed the services access to more information, they evidently
did not think to assign levels of access to the data in the database and
thus this PFC analysist had access to a lot of information that he probably
should not have had access to...

even more telling is that he actually downloaded the information to a
device which should have been locked out or access removed on that/those
machines... that he gathered this information with the obvious intent to
disseminate it elsewhere is also greatly telling... now one must determine
why this PFC did this... was $$$ the incentive or was it something else??

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