Originally Posted by
Trollkiller
Originally Posted by
pmocek
Use of drugs, much less association with people who use them, has no bearing on one's qualifications to hold a security clearance.
Sure it does, if you are willing to break the law for mere recreation why wouldn't you break the law for profit?
First, this wasn't about breaking the law, it was about using drugs (something that almost everyone does) or associating with people who use drugs. The former is sometimes illegal; the latter is not. I still maintain that neither has any bearing on one's qualifications to hold a security clearance.
I don't know how to answer your question. Whether or not someone would use recreation as justification for unlawful activity seems to me to have no bearing on whether he would use profit as justification for unlawful activity (and neither seems relevant to the discussion of drug use and security clearances). Could you please rephrase?