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Individuals with security clearances are required to go through in depth background investigations. These investigations become more involved and expansive the higher the level of clearance being required. There are also requirements for people holding security clearances to receive periodic recertification investigations. These are at the 10 year mark for SECRET and 5 year mark for TOP SECRET clearance levels. These reviews and processes are in place to prevent individuals receiving clearances who may be at risk for compromise. Although the system is effective in the majority of cases, human behavior and an individual's personal circumstances change with the passage of time. Someone who is not a threat to national security today could always become one in the future for any number of reasons. The decision to terminate and revoke the clearance of personnel who may be compromised is the right decision. Furthermore, anyone who holds a security clearance has a moral obligation to remain beyond reproach in their conduct and it is a matter of personal responsibility to do so.

Commented: Friday, February 28th, 2025 @ 12:09 pm By: John Heermann

Someone should file a complaint against BCCC under this portal. They may not be a K-12 institution but they have an early college high school component of their program, so that should be enought to warrant a complaint against them for DEI. I think that also opens Beaufort County Schools up to a DEI complaint.

Commented: Friday, February 28th, 2025 @ 10:50 am By: Conservative Voter

Yeah. I was just using the 1.5 years as the statement attributed to Waters in the article. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it were not much longer. The big question is, why was the School Superintendent and the Chair of the County Commission working together independently of the Commission and the School Board?

I remember in 2023 when the new School Board members at that time were accused falsely of representing themselves as the Board to the State Legislature. Wouldn't it be a hoot if it turned out the accusers were doing it themselves. While that's fun to wonder about, it seems pretty likely that Cheeseman and Waters have been doing that sort of thing for a long time.

Commented: Friday, February 28th, 2025 @ 8:50 am By: Van Zant

I agree borderhawk: There is so much idiocy in government, sometimes I do not know where to start; however, STOPPING donations to the Beaufort County Community College is a fantastic start.

When Idiot President Biden was playing The Traitor President, and acting as the absolute accessory to the invasion of all our borders by Illegals and known terrorists, there was much we could do, but now we may be able able to take action, especially is we can get just one more patriot commissioner on the board when I seek re-election as a sensible patriot commissioner in the 2026 election.

Commented: Friday, February 28th, 2025 @ 7:54 am By: Stan Deatherage

I think if the Beaufort County Chairman of the Board of Commissioners has been working on getting that lottery fund grant for over one and one-half years, that would have been before Cheeseman even asked the School Board if he could start grant writing. Even if it was about the same time, that would be more initial planning between Waters and Cheeseman than between them and the actual Commission Board members and School Board members. Of course, that doesn't mean some select members of each board were not involved, but I can only speculate about that.

Commented: Friday, February 28th, 2025 @ 4:22 am By: Van Zant

People whose lifestyles make them potential blackmail targets should never be allowed to work in intelligence agencies. The Soviets penetrated British intelligence back in the 50s by zeroing in on homosexuals there. And if a journalist got access to that discussion board, how likely is it that the Chinese and Russian intelligence agencies also did?

Commented: Thursday, February 27th, 2025 @ 7:24 pm By: Rino Hunter

Officials like Loupe who thumb their noses at our immigration laws should be put out to pasture. We do not need such people in our community.

Commented: Thursday, February 27th, 2025 @ 6:42 pm By: borderhawk

Those folks that distributed death in little pills and trafficked the innocence of children to monsters of sexual deviancy are those that might need some killing among their sorry ranks.

Commented: Thursday, February 27th, 2025 @ 5:52 pm By: William Bonney

As I've said before, the staff leadership of BCS has absolutely abandoned their quest for a social studies curriculum purchase. After the public concerns and hard questions by the then new board members a couple of years ago, they actually removed it from any consideration. As I remember it, the item was not placed before the Board again after the public resistance.

As I have observed since then when board members have asked about curriculum status they have been put off by staff. Recently, after being questioned by individual board members they have admitted to not having any plans for social studies curriculum. It seems like it was SAAVAS or nothing for them. Now, they say they want to plan for science curriculum. I don't know anyone that really knows what the status of that is.

I have noticed that some Board members have renewed their requests for staff status reports regarding curriculum. It seems to me that this board is being blown off by staff and there are not enough board members that care enough to demand staff to respond. It seems like a will-full staff and a lazy or ideologically hostile Board majority - not sure what the majority proportion is.

So, how long does it take? It seems like the strategy is to delay untill the clock runs out.

Commented: Thursday, February 27th, 2025 @ 5:27 pm By: Van Zant

I will never understand the obvious and unrelenting affinity that the Biden administration, and other Non Patriot Leftists had the cartels that shepherded Illegals, Fentanyl and other deadly narcotics and child sex trafficking across our borders and into the heart of our Representative Republic.

Can any Democratic Socialist or Non Patriot Leftist please explain to this publication, this public square's readers why there is this associative need for the cartels by the Democratic Socialists, and why making these cartels, each as rich as nations while Americans died, and children sex trafficked so utterly important within this base of these ideals of the Non Patriot Left?

Commented: Thursday, February 27th, 2025 @ 4:52 pm By: Stan Deatherage

There is an old saying in politics that "you do not piss on your base" and the German CDU seems likely to find that out the hard way if Merz persists in abandoning his most important campaign promise on illegal immigration. Exit polls showed that cracking down on illegal migration was the number one issue of German voters, outstripping the economy and inflation and far outstripping "climate change". In votes actually cast over 60^ of German voters cast their votes for parties pledging a hard line on immigration.

The CDU only has to look at the implosion of its frequent ally, the Free Democrats due to their abandonment of their hard line on immigration. In the previous German election, the Free Democrats had run on a hard line against immigration, not quite as hard as AfD but much harder than the CDU, and received almost 12% of the vote. After joining an open borders coalitino with the Social Democrats and Greens, they started getting totally wiped out in state election after state election. Although they tried to regain their footing in this national election by again taking a hard line on immigration, their voters no longer trusted them and they got a bit over 4%, crashing out of the national parliament altogether. Merz may well bring the same fate down on the CDU with the same arrogance toward German voters.

Commented: Wednesday, February 26th, 2025 @ 8:50 am By: Steven P. Rader