Curiosity's sake... do outsourced Intel jobs come with oaths?

[annabanana]

Do they swear allegiance to anything?

[leveymg]

1. Security clearances, but no oath other than to follow orders, shut up, or be fired/lose clearance

which is your meal ticket in the classified contracting world.

A security clearance involves signing a written contract, but not raising your hand. Same with being "read into" a compartmentalized classified program.

[EC]

2. In retail sales I had to sign

a non-disclosure form. If I revealed anything I could be sued. Had to be really careful at my unemployment tribunal for that reason. They threatened me over a schedule copy I used to prove I was on vacation when infraction I got fired for occurred. So I can't believe they didn't at least have this.

[Recursion]

3. They don't even all require citizenship

The PowerPoint that Snowden released, for instance, isn't marked "NOFORN", which means non-US-citizens with the relevant US clearances (and there are plenty) could see them. That's another reason I think that's an orientation briefing he leaked, because it has to be visible to all employees.

(I've been in situations where I couldn't show something to someone with a higher clearance than I had, because it was marked NOFORN and he was a British Army officer. It's a byzantine system, and simply having a given clearance level doesn't guarantee anything.)