…gotta stop before the hands cramp up.
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But the minds still work for some of us…
Only 35?
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A “Q” clearance? Was he all “Anonymous” about it too? 
Just kidding. I had a similar DoD clearance level. The questions they asked my neighbors were more ‘reasonable’: did they know if I had any foreign contacts, alcohol or drug abuse, did I beat my wife, etc…
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That’s what they call the top clearance at the lab—or used to, at any rate.
I can’t recall anyone asking questions of our neighbors.
My dad designed reactor control panels, and worked on a number of highly-classified projects over his 35 years at the lab.
Amazing story, and here we speak of China as an authoritarian state that has a lot of surveillance on its citizens like it’s something so anti American. The government (big business) fears democracy.
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Shameful.
Yes, the Q clearance is equivalent to a Top Secret DoD clearance.
It only applies to the DoE, and does not confer the ability to read TS documents without also holding that clearance. That is one reason the Q-Anon morons are so laughable. They believe a Q clearance grants the (likely Russian) poster knowledge of “conspiracies” throughout the government.
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When my dad started working there, the DoE didn’t exist. He worked for Union Carbide, which worked under contract for the AEC.
Are you sure of that? I think Q might be a general non-DoD clearance (the only agency my father worked for, afaik, was the treasury, and he apparently had one). But they did go far enough to know that my sister had signed an antiwar petition in high school…
Still illegal today, even after the COINTELPRO documents revealed by anti-war activists breaking into a local PA FBI office in 1971, leading to the Church Committee in 1975, but the feds just changed the name of the ops and continue to this day, collecting info of protesters and activists, black and white.
BTW, great book out a few years ago:
The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI Hardcover – Deckle Edge, January 7, 2014
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Yes, I’m sure:
The kind of “juicy” information the QAnon morons think their guru knows would be Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI). Typically access to this information requires a “lifestyle” polygraph, where the examiner can question the applicant about almost anything, including sexual orientation. They aren’t allowed to refuse the clearance on that basis anymore, but they are looking for evidence that you could be blackmailed over it. (See: Graham, Lindsey; aka Lady G).
By the way, tRump would have never gotten any kind of clearance as a private citizen given his string of bankruptcies and his extensive history of being sued for non-payment.
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A new employer required a polygraph, I was taking the test and the questioner said excuse me a moment. She came back in with her boss. He looked at the readout and said you’re in IT right. When I said yes, he told the clerk to shut it down as he never knew a single IT professional who could even answer a single question, as simple as, please state your name, that the machine did not flag as lying. Thing was that the key question they always asked, have you ever stolen from an employer always jumped off the chart. As he stated, in IT everything you did was owned by your employer and there was not any way to prevent you from taking the intellectual property with you that you had developed when you switched positions. That technically was theft and was what the polygraph picked up.
And I see that the Q designation also goes back to the AEC immediately postwar, which means I would have misheard or something odd would have been going on.
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TS/SCI primarily classifies intelligence information. “Compartmented” means that specific categories of information are only available to those who have been explicitly cleared for that particular category. This could be anything from the identity of a particular intelligence source, to the overall US approach to a particular country or leader. The server that tRump’s phone call with Zelensky, probably holds a number of different compartments, each defined by a code word.
Yep. There are entire other categories of sensitive stuff that’s more along the lines of proprietary information – some of it is “sensitive but unclassified”, other stuff comes under other headings. (When my mother got her first job, at the NY Fed, a long time ago, she was approached by someone who told her that the previous incumbent of her postion had given early access to potentially market-moving information, and that the favor was expected to continue. Now that kind of stuff has very explicit restrictions on it, but back then it was mostly “don’t do that.”)
Most of the “sensitive but unclassified” information is stamped: Unclassified/For Official Use Only or U/FOUO.
THAT is funny. I’ve heard of “over socialized” persons who appear to be deceiving when they are not. That is just ONE reason why polygraph results are not allowed into evidence.
OTOH, some psychopaths have “passed” polygraphs, the Green River serial killer being one. He was an early suspect and ruled out as the wrong guy. Robert Hanssen, the mole who did enormous damage also passed a polygraph and so did Aldrich Ames another mole.