> True, but giving the gov your blackmail file ...
You misunderstand me.
If you're blackmailable, you shouldn't be holding a TS clearance. If you're granted a TS, and later become blackmailable, you really should have your clearance revoked.
Blackmail is possible when one has a secret that one really does not revealed to some set of parties. If you reveal that secret to your employer, but still fear its disclosure to other parties, then you are still blackmailable.
If you don't fear the disclosure of the personal secrets you've revealed to your government employer, then you also don't particularly care about your government employer's systems getting breached and revealing those secrets to the world. Might you be mad as hell at the incompetence? Sure! But your risk of blackmail is not increased because of the disclosure because you weren't blackmailable to begin with.
You misunderstand me.
If you're blackmailable, you shouldn't be holding a TS clearance. If you're granted a TS, and later become blackmailable, you really should have your clearance revoked.