Originally Posted by
GUWonder
A complete end? I think CBP may struggle to pull that off completely.
There aren't that many enrollment centers, and there's only one vetting center. Not that hard to get the word down to just deny all questionables if that's the way they want to run things. Nothing is 100%, but we could see exceptions get a lot harder/rarer, even for those who meet the criteria.
Originally Posted by
GUWonder
There are a few thousand people who were given final approval for GE membership but whom should have been rejected according to those who worked on that report.
That was before the report came out. They're not going to review their entire membership base to do what might be 5,000 revocations at the high end. But they can plug the "hole" to the extent that the "hole" is a hole and take the trouble to comply with their handbook since they seem to have one. I hope security clearances aren't treated this way, but they probably are, just at a slightly less lax level depending on the clearance level sought. GE isn't the model of a super-secure vetting program, but this report doesn't inspire confidence in our government's ability to write a set of instructions for itself and follow it which is a basic skill a government should have.