Classic bureaucratic thinking...
Before long, anyone outside the organization itself is viewed as an opponent of the organization...
CIA officers allegedly hacked into the US Senate Intelligence Committee's computers to find out what the oversight committee had found out about its controversial detention and treatment of terror suspects. The oversight committee had managed to get its hands on unapproved material, or so the CIA feared, the New York Times …
1. You repeatedly apply for Security Cleared Jobs.
2. You hardly ever get an interview.
3. When you do, you do spectacularly well,
4. But then fail to get a job, fail to be told why, fail to understand it.
5. For several years in a row.
It's even worse if.
1. You arrive in King Charles Street,
2. Your interview is changed at the last minute.
3. Despite nothing written on your CV, he knows you aren't cleared.
4. He then tells you to go home.
Because you're on a watch list. Your job applications are being monitored, and if you're likely to be getting a job, they intervene.