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No it's not. All classified material is provided on a "Need to Know" basis. You can't just have a clearance and get access to every classified document out there, that's ridiculous.



Just to expounded. Once you get passed Secret almost everything is compartmentalized.

To speak to the Snowden leaks, in there entirety they now are clearly, far outside the scope of any single user, unless that user was a multi-department head or higher. It is more likely that the leaks are from multiple users now. The story posted yesterday about the access level of the information lends this theory some credibility, although none to the means of access.


More info on that, the press rumor that he gained access to other user credentials:

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/29/20234171-...


Yes I'm aware of that. I never said that one would gain access to all information simply because they have a clearance..




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