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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRachel Maddow: The shutdown sabotages the FBI more than you think.
Basically:
Anybody with a security-clearance, such as an FBI-agent, must have a certain financial stability or else.
If you have financial troubles, then you are vulnerable to pressure and leverage from third parties.
If you are vulnerable to pressure and leverage, you lose your security-clearance.
The shutdown not only takes away the wages of FBI-agents, it could destroy all of their careers.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/maddow-explains-trumps-genius-move-thwart-fbi-investigations-corruption/
LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)Any changes to the worse in your financial condition needed to be reported immediately. Your clearance would then be subject to review.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)and any direct link to Trump shutdown should be shown..
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Why do KGOP republicans hate truth, justice, the rule of law, and loyalty to the USA?
* aka Comrade Dirty Donny (R)
malaise
(268,968 posts)Every one of them.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Rachel has ever done.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,013 posts)KrazyinKS
(291 posts)This guy is a piece of work. I don't know, will we survive this? Through the years I have learned it is surprising what you can live through.
manor321
(3,344 posts)Jarqui
(10,123 posts)One might take exception to parts of what she said but it is impossible to irradiate the entire substance of her report.
Actions have consequences. The longer this goes on, the greater those consequences and the substance of her report gets reinforced more as this drags out.
nitpicker
(7,153 posts)It's the Coast Guard, the military reservists that aren't being paid by their regular jobs, those clearance-holders in other agencies not being paid, those who have unpaid spouses or other household members, etc.