Comment by crankylinuxuser

> This is dealing directly with the government. I doubt we ever hear of this again if the government screwed up.

Exactly. We won't hear of it. They do work all across the US in the state and federal space. It's too lucrative to give up to shame them into submission publicly. Privately, sure.

> I feel bad for the contractors who now have arrest records. They are the victims here.

Well, they've been arrested. So their clearances have been yanked already, as per standard for Confidential/TS/SCI. Unless they can get complete restoration, including expungement of the arrest, and admission of unlawful arrest, they're done in federal/state infosec.