CBS: Bradley Manning Part of 'Widespread Failure' in Security Clearances

Matthew Balan | November 6, 2015
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

The 6 November 2015 edition of CBS Evening News previewed an upcoming 60 Minutes exposé on the "widespread failures in the system that grants top-secret security clearance to federal employees and contractors." Scott Pelley pointed at Bradley Manning as a prime example of "how top-secret clearances fall into dangerous hands." Pelley featured several clips from his interview of Manning's former supervisor in Iraq, who told her superior that "he cannot be trusted with a security clearance; we can't deploy him; and he's most likely a spy."

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