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The Navy's intelligence boss and his deputy have been without a security clearance for more than two years. Now a lawmaker on the Senate Intelligence Committee is calling foul, saying it’s unfair for senior leaders to keep their jobs while rank-and-file intelligence personnel are removed routinely for losing their access to secrets.
Vice Adm. Ted "Twig" Branch, director of naval intelligence, and Rear Adm. Bruce Loveless, director of the Information Dominance office, have been hamstrung since November 2013, when their high-level clearances were suspended amid an investigation into their ties to “Fat” Leonard Francis, the Malaysian contractor at the center of the largest bribery scandals in Navy history.
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The issue has regained the spotlight after a Washington Post article noting that the intel leaders had gone over 800 days without access to government secrets.
Fat Leonard wasn't in pretrial detention. In 2018, he worked out a deal with the court in which he lived in a San Diego home for medical reasons, including renal cancer, with private security provided by Fat Leonard, in addition to an ankle monitor so the U.S. Marshals would know his whereabouts. He was living in a gated community in upscale Carmel Valley with his mother and his children. Fat Leonard was scheduled to appear in federal court, at last, on Sept. 22, to receive his sentence.
However, at 7:30 Sunday morning, his ankle monitor pinged the Marshals that it was being tampered with, and by the time the authorities reached the house, in the middle of the afternoon, nobody was there. Police found no sign of Fat Leonard and whoever was living there with him. He apparently cut off his ankle monitor and went on the lam.
Yeah, someone needs to explain how you can be the Director of Naval Intelligence without a clearance.
I get not kicking them out of the Navy during an ongoing investigation, but how do these guys still hold those positions?
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