If so, that's a big change from my time. Perhaps some generals need to be reallocated to Antarctica for an extended tour of duty. Congress ultimately controls purse strings, but Generals can make a phone call and put a stop to anything.

Like any large organization, the organization does care but sometimes some of the managers don't care as much or don't do a good job. The military brass definitely cares about and understands this based on my experience. It's just hard to pull off.

Anyone with a clearance will specifically be looked at for gambling. Gamblers can eventually be leveraged. Considering that the military is one of the fattest pipelines for clearance workers, it'd be a good idea to tamp down on this.

Not just gambling. Any debt.

I worked at a place that sold expensive things. Sold a thing to a guy. Had two guys show up a couple days latter to talk about exactly how he financed thing and etc. Turns out he was an just a middling engineer on the F-35 program, but they confirmed everything he told them using us.

I wanted to confirm that significant debt can preclude someone from acquiring a security clearance. Significant new debt can be reason to rescind an active clearance too.

Bankruptcy & poor finances is the #1 reason for a clearance application to be rejected.

Shows a pattern of poor judgement, and makes the applicant way, way more likely to be bribed or blackmailed.

Bankruptcy also has a court angle, which means you can, with an amount of effort that's trivial for large, nation-state intelligence orgs, find a list of all recent bankruptcy cases in, say, Southern Maryland or Northern Virginia. The CI types lose a lot of sleep over this stuff.

Ok, but isn't there a rather large amount of personel who do basic jobs and won't do anything special nor won't move up the ranks? 18-23 years old young men that enter and leave and that is it. As in, there is huge amount of other people too.

People in basic jobs can still compromise security of the facility.

People in basic jobs at Twitter helped murder a journalist.

Secure facilities still need janitors, plumbers, electricians other maintenance people. I worked in a downtown data center that did banking and securities trading and had to badge through three doors to get to my desk. Every night a different janitor I'd never seen before would also badge through both of those doors and empty every trash bin on the floor, and then another person would come in around 3am and vacuum the whole floor for two hours. Based on the rate that new people cycled through those jobs I doubt they were being vetted very hard.