Revoking Security Clearances: How Bad Could It Get for Lawyers?

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Revoking Security Clearances: How Bad Could It Get for Lawyers?

Washington lawyer Mark Zaid’s security clearance gives him access to information, like whether a client works for the Central Intelligence Agency and what happened to the US intelligence officers he represents who are suffering from “Havana Syndrome.”

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Washington lawyer Mark Zaid’s security clearance gives him access to information, like whether a client works for the Central Intelligence Agency and what happened to the US intelligence officers he represents who are suffering from “Havana Syndrome.”

Zaid is one of a relatively small number of lawyers with “full” security clearances, he says, listed in databases with mysterious titles such as the Director of National Intelligence’s “SCATTERED CASTLES” and “DISS” at the Defense Department. The status, which Zaid has had for 23 years, allows him to be quickly granted access to classified material impacting his clients.

 

[Tall Timbers]

I can't tell from the article if Mark Zaid's clearance was pulled. Those who recently lost their clearances mis-used them and thus did not deserve to have them in the first place.