Psst, the “public” already knows (and some are doing quite well, thank you).

At what point do so many Americans hold security clearances that they essentially comprise a “public,” at least within that percentage of the general public who think about or participate in current affairs?  According to the official tally, which is surely low, nearly 5 million people hold clearances to government restricted information, of which about 1.4 million are at the top secret level.  More than a third of the latter work outside the government for private contractors.  Entire major metropolitan areas could be populated with these individuals (and to a significant extent are, in the case of greater Washington DC).  Compartmentalization–sealing off knowledge among subsets of clearance holders on a need-to-know basis, made famous by the Manhattan Project–is obviously an illusion today. As the heads of federal intelligence agencies and their allies in Congress line up now to denounce the unauthorized release of secrets to the “public” and to demand the prosecution of leakers, the situation is more clear than ever that the supposed damage to national security is a confection, because millions upon millions of people already know.

And some of them are getting rich from it. The revolving door between Booz Allen Hamilton’s executive suite and the NSA directorate makes former Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig’s conflict-of-interest at Human Genome Sciences or John S. Parker‘s at Scientific Applications International look like small beer.  The aerospace industry gave birth to this brand of everyday corruption a long time ago (the Japanese even have a word for it: amakudari), but the mushrooming of private contractors performing myriad functions for the federal government with virtually unlimited budgets since 9/11 has erased all pretense of separating public from private enterprise.  The real damage of leaks is to the enormous profitability of holding and controlling secrets, as indicated by the dip this week in Booz Allen’s stock.

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The elephantine scope of the federal classification system makes a mockery of its credibility. According to the latest annual report,

2326 executive branch employees, of whom 898 are at the top secret level, have the power to make information secret (a subjective process not controlled by rigorous rules).  In fiscal 2012, there were 73,477 new classification actions. More than 95 million so-called derivative classifications–in which previous decisions are extended to new documents– occurred.  The cost of this Sisyphean work to the taxpayer was at least  $9.77 billion.  The entire subject is lowered to the level of farce by the news that the private company that performs 45 percent of the background checks for government security clearances, USIS, has routinely shortcutted the process for the sake of higher profits.