Leaker of U.S. secret documents worked on military base

[August]

Originally Posted by mapuc

Hmm There's a thing I can't add up in my head, maybe you could enlighten me with this riddle.

This young man who was arrested worked as Air National Guardsman.
How could he access secret and top secret paper from different areas inside the Intelligent ?

In my wold these guards do not have access to these type of paper.

Maybe it's different in USA ?

Markus

It depends on his particular job.

At one point even though I was just a buck (junior) Sergeant I was the highest cleared person on Fort Devens because I was working in the post communications center and needed access to intel traffic going all the resident units and separate commands so I could process it.

Back then everything was done on punch cards and teletype paper so making illicit copies of classified materials was nearly impossible. These days it must be a security nightmare now that everything is transmitted electronically. You just can't achieve the same level of control over electronic media that you can with stamped and numbered hard copies.