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Originally Posted by Desert Mariner
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Those groups are heavily investigated, and don't have super-futuristic or illegal military equipment. Secrecy is a huge issue.
And as a note on SSBI vs Project investigations, it is worthwhile that there are some hugely important differences. The government is looking for patriots, the Project is actually looking for a special type of traitor. The government can enforce their negative decisions (clearance denials, violations of laws regarding the handling of classified information, etc) with the force of law and an existing legal infrastructure, while the Project needs to get it right close to every time or the main expense of the Project will quickly become "disappearing" people who don't want to join but now know too much. The government can make reasonably accurate estimates of who will betray them based on past performance, the Project needs to take a fantastical hypothetical and find people really willing to abandon everyone and everything to make it real.
It should also be noted that people with higher clearances are tracked, to varying degrees, even after they end the employment that led to those clearances. There are people whose jobs are to know immediately if certain people try to leave the country, or publish anything without prior approval,
or are being targeted or recruited by a potential enemy of the country... and EVERY organization is a potential enemy.
You can take some of those people, you probably can't get that many without raising some uncomfortable suspicions, and most of those people would be more likely to report the Project than join it anyway.