U.S. Navy’s Intelligence Chief Has Not Been Permitted Access To Secrets For Two Years!

Vice Adm. Ted “Twig” Branch, chief of Navy intelligence and the Navy’s chief information officer, has lost access to classified materials for more than 800 days. U.S. Navy photo.

Craig Whitlock, Portland Press Herald/Washington Post: Navy intelligence chief lacks access to secrets

As a Justice Department probe winds on, he's barred from seeing or hearing classified information.

For more than two years, the Navy’s intelligence chief has been stuck with a major handicap: He’s not allowed to know any secrets.

Vice Adm. Ted “Twig” Branch has been barred from reading, seeing or hearing classified information since November 2013, when the Navy learned from the Justice Department that his name had surfaced in a giant corruption investigation involving a foreign defense contractor and scores of Navy personnel.

Worried that Branch was on the verge of being indicted, Navy leaders suspended his access to classified materials. They did the same to one of his deputies, Rear Adm. Bruce Loveless, the Navy’s director of intelligence operations.

More than 800 days later, neither Branch nor Loveless has been charged. But neither has been cleared, either. Their access to classified information remains blocked.

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WNU Editor: This is one of those WTF?!?!?! stories .... two years and still no resolution to the case .... something is terribly wrong here.