[bigmac]

When it comes down to it, these cables were leaked most likely due to Bradley Manning handing them over to Wikileaks. Thus, it was fundamentally a failure of the security clearance screening process that made this leak possible; a bad apple got through.

From that point of view, it only makes sense to assume that the screening process will be more strict moving forward. No surprise, then, that one metric that may be taken into account will be a person's feelings toward Wikileaks. I imagine the people conducting clearance reviews will look at everything a candidate has posted online, and ask them directly how they feel about Wikileaks.

Sympathetic feelings toward Wikileaks is simply a chance the US Government will not be willing to take.

[ams6110]

That a "bad apple" got through was one problem. The other problem was that he appears to have had access to far to much information, and that adequate systems to prevent the download and removal of the information also failed.