That's what makes this situation so bizarre. It's NOT that easy to get, and most of these classified materials are truncated and distributed separately. In the event of a leak, only a small amount of hard to assemble intelligence is exposed. It sounds to me like the entire command needs to be re-educated on handling intelligence.

The impression is giving that certain kinds of people are given easier access, so slip through filters. And there level of access and what they can do is plain ridiculous, relative to their rank or job.

Seemingly they can kind of easily rummage through whatever, which the Snowden case gives hints at. This guy supposedly had briefing slides from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. You would think that's near impossible, for someone at his level, but somehow it wasn't.

Here's the thing: it's actually hard to get for all the wrong reasons.

For example, if you've consumed cannabis in the past 12 months? Forget about it.

Source: my interim access to Public Trust (several tiers below the type of information in these leaks) was revoked and final adjudication took 5 months because in November I admitted to partaking 4 months previous to filling out my first form.

Info is exploding. Hard to keep track of everything. Probably impossible.

I wont be surprised if they actually have some knowledge mgmt model that shows the point above which they cant keep tabs on everything. But its the govt. They are never going to admit that in public.