Strong on defense, weak on taxes: 26,000 Pentagon workers owe back taxes to IRS

It turns out that even having high security clearance doesn’t mean you are up to date on paying your taxes: the government’s chief watchdog said Monday that 26,000 Defense Department workers and contractors with high clearances are in arrears.
The problem is a big enough security risk that the intelligence community has formed a working group to try to get a handle on in. They are trying to see if they can get access to information about tax debt in order to make extra checks.