Pentagon Employees With Top-Secret Security Clearance Owe Millions In Unpaid Taxes [View all]
Source: International Business Times
Some 83,000 Pentagon employees and contractors are tax deadbeats, to the collective tune of $730 million. And, roughly a quarter of them had top-secret security clearance, an internal government audit shows.
It’s yet another reason the U.S. security clearance system is under scrutiny after high-profile former employees such as Edward Snowden started to reveal classified information.
“Federal laws do not prohibit an individual with unpaid federal taxes from holding a security clearance, but delinquent tax debt poses a potential vulnerability,” the Government Accountability Office report says. “Because these clearances may allow personnel to access classified information that, through unauthorized disclosure, can in some cases cause exceptionally grave damage to the U.S. national security, investigators and adjudicators are to thoroughly assess applicants and their eligibility.”
Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/pentagon-employees-top-secret-security-clearance-owe-millions-unpaid-taxes-1642024
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