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Clearance process. this guy got into the system because he was a security guy. >> 83,000 private employees and contractors have top secret clearance. a half million. >> he was in one of the most important jobs. i think the people that are it administrators in charge, even if 29, ought to be federal employees and there ought to be supervision above them. he was one inch above the sheriff in about five jobs and the system didn't catch him. >> apparently he is in china saying he knows about protocols used, the u.s. hacking chinese institutions and the like. >> we don't know if that's true or not....

>> it's possible. >> i haven't gone into their clearance process or had anything to do with booz allen for six years. >> any thought about how damaging the leak is? >> i think it's very damaging because it gives terrorists an idea of how we collect and what we might know. and you can't just inform the american people. you're informing the terrorists when you lay something like that out. it's really kind of the function -- what they've done is the functional equivalent of what stinson the secretary of state did in the late 20s. he stopped all the state departments code breaking of other countri...

Here's a heads up, we've interviewed a guy in your city. >> normally they're sitting side by side and discuss it and then they have meetings normally morning and afternoon meetings to discuss here's who we've looked at today, here's what we've got, here's the results of that. and everybody that's a participant in the jttf would be privy to the actual information about the investigation at the time of it. every member of the jttf goes through a clearance process by the fbi so they're cleared top secret so they can actually see the internal communications of the fbi and the other agencies. there...

It is interesting because justice scalia's confirmation vote was 98-0 in the senate. so he was using the fact that we have wonderful progress that we have that even the senators covered by section 5 have the need for the ongoing clearance process. so he went on the say this is must mean a racial entitlement and we as the court must step in, because we cannot trust congress. it was extraordinary statement and i would be surprised if a majority of the supreme court justices want to line up with that statement. >> stay with us cherilyn, because it would be interesting if we can say that the comme...

State secrets, all that but america's spy agency is reportedly looking into whether sensors are redacting information for political reasons. catherine herridge is in washington tonight. catherine, it's my understanding that a lot of this has to do with waterboarding. >> that's right, shep. former fbi agent who wrote the book black banner says it sailed through the clearance process at the fbi because his book does not support claims that waterboarding worked it was unexpectedly sent to the cia for review where the agency got out the big black pen redacted information that you can't find on the...