Army Enlistee, Blogger Loses Clearance

A 19-year-old Army enlistee trained as an Intelligence Analyst, issued a top-secret security clearance, and assigned to a base in Georgia had his security clearance suspended and, about seven months later, revoked after it was discovered he started a blog containing criticism of U.S. Government spending policies, according to an anti-war website. He says Army investigators accused him of espionage and of possibly supporting the overthrow of the U.S. Government. He has since left the Army, saying he could no longer do the job he was trained to do and now “want[s] to counter the whole idea that just because you think you might have messed up one area of your life, your life is ruined forever.”

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