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Templeton Fellow Nada Bakos Quoted by CNN on White House Security Clearance Policy


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But several sources, including intelligence officials who have served in Democratic and Republican administrations told CNN last week that such a backlog was very unusual and made clear the process should have been finished after a year in office.
 
Nada Bakos, a former CIA analyst said Monday that a year was a “long time” for permanent clearances to still be outstanding.
 
“We all know there is a backlog at various levels for security clearances but these are people in the White House … We are talking about the suitability of the people they have put into these positions, that is what I think is at question,” Bakos told CNN’s Brooke Baldwin on Monday.
 

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