Then-candidate Trump’s race for president was erratic and unfocused, bouncing from controversy to controversy and digging in on new arguments and issues every day. Yet throughout the cacophony, he had one line that always stayed consistent: Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, had committed a grave offense in her failure to properly manage classified information at the State Department.Now that they’re in power, the Trump orbit appears to have a much more lenient approach to information security - particularly when it comes to notions of who can and can’t have security clearances.NBC News recently reported that as of November 2017, more than 130 political appointees - a quarter of the people working in the Executive Office of the President - lacked permanent security clearances. While this doesn’t mean that all of these people can’t obtain permanent security clearances because of problematic backgrounds, it does present problems for the flow of information in the White House.