White House cuts more than 630,000 security clearances

Federal Times: The number of security clearances has fallen by 635,803 in the last year – about 12 percent – as the administration looks to cut down on the number of people who hold clearances.

The overall drop is a combination of 164,501 people who had a security clearance and had access to clearance-level information and the 471,302 who had a clearance but not regular access to clearance-level information, according to a recently released report.

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