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On the recordFebruary 11, 2025
The first thing we do is make sure that unless you have a security clearance, a top-secret security clearance, you cannot access those records. The second thing it does is, if you have not been a Federal Government employee for at least a year, you cannot access those records. You cannot access those records if you are a special government employee because, let's remember, we have to have oversight over the people who are doing this. People need to disclose what their conflicts of interests are, which brings us to the fourth piece. You cannot access those records if you have a conflict of interest. Let's just say, hypothetically, you were running a satellite company that had large contracts with the United States and were also doing business in China and you might have reason to gain that system, that would be a conflict of interest.
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Sean Casten
Democratic · Illinois
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govinfo.gov
Feb 11, 2025

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