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I was working at a place in the UK where I only had BPSS but everybody else in the office had top clearance as they worked on military stuff, this was when The Guardian were doing the Snowden stuff.

It was easily the best way of clearing the office for some peace - mention the front page of the newspaper and everybody would lock their laptops, pick up their papers and walk.

From what I can gather the fact you know something you shouldn't, even though it's in the national news, it causes problems when renewing your clearances, so...