Steve and Jaime frequently "grant" persons with lower clearance Level 6, by virtue of showing them some bionic feat. This is doubtless not an actual raise of clearance for most, but it does seem to have stuck for Callahan ("Steve Austin, Fugitive"). In some cases, this is accompanied by the order that the witness forget what they've seen, for the rest of their lives ("Wine, Women and War"). Steve seems to vary on his interpretation of the seriousness of the security clearance, such as when he rather casually discusses his bionics with fellow astronauts Vasily Zhukov ("Doomsday, and Counting") and Kelly Woods ("The Rescue of Athena One"). In the case of the former, it could be argued that Austin actually committed treason by revealing his bionics to the Russian (as well as to a second Russi