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2014-03-11 -Land of the Free

US network to scan workers with secret clearances

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Posted by Besoeker 2014-03-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 (Sung to the tune "Please Release Me" by Tom Jones... yeah showing my age)

Pleaeeeeease debrief me, let me go
I don't want the need to knoooooow....

Posted by OldSpook 2014-03-11 03:39|| 2014-03-11 03:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Elvis's version is far superior. IMHO

Posted by RJ45ACP 2014-03-11 03:49|| 2014-03-11 03:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Perhaps a series of 5 log-on questions beginning with.... 'Do you plan to answer truthfully to the following 4 questions'....?

Posted by Besoeker 2014-03-11 07:25|| 2014-03-11 07:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Remember when the system fails because people short cut or did a run around the system, the answer is to have even more controls and more systems rather than holding people accountable for their management failure to follow the rules and procedures. /sarc off

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-03-11 10:16|| 2014-03-11 10:16|| Front Page Top

#5 As long as they're letting people walk in and out of so called secure facilities with laptops, CDs, thumbdrives, etc. they're gonna have Snowdens, Mannings and, let's see, who was that Clinton associate who stuck the papers up his pant leg? Can't remember the name...

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-03-11 11:45|| 2014-03-11 11:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Over the past year we've learned more about NSA high-level special intelligence tactics and techniques than we've learned about Champ's college classes. Has to tell you something about priorities does it not ?

Posted by Besoeker 2014-03-11 11:50|| 2014-03-11 11:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Sandy Berger!

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-03-11 12:20|| 2014-03-11 12:20|| Front Page Top

#8 What this tells me is that the SCI "Lifestyle" polygraph is as useless as it is nasty to sit thru. The Aussies have dropped their requirement. The US should too, and spend that money on something like actual counter-intel surveillance.

I am so glad Im debriefed and not actively in the system, and will, (barring an act of God) never be read-in again. Im too old for this sh*t.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-03-11 17:13|| 2014-03-11 17:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Sorry OS, you know you can really never leave. Your PR has been indefinitely extended. You've been administratively indoc'd. Please get a shave, a haircut, and advise us of any pending foreign travel. We'll be in touch. :-(

Posted by Besoeker 2014-03-11 19:48|| 2014-03-11 19:48|| Front Page Top

#10 What this tells me is that the SCI "Lifestyle" polygraph is as useless as it is nasty to sit thru.

I've read the Rooskis don't use polygraphs because they consider them unreliable and actively train their people to defeat them.

Just an impression from outside the community, but it seems that while our guys are good at technical stuff - signals intell, photo-recon, etc - they fail badly at stuff involving humans. This leads to embarrassing mistakes like missing the fall of the fUSSR, blowing up a Chinese embassy and various Snowdens.

Posted by SteveS 2014-03-11 22:04|| 2014-03-11 22:04|| Front Page Top

#11 As per DRUDGE, it apparently included Diane Feinstein's DB + others in the Congress, + Diane is not a happy camper about it.

Nope, she's not happy at all.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-03-11 22:13|| 2014-03-11 22:13|| Front Page Top

#12 Well I will admit I do have to do pre-clearance on things until I die (or 25 years). And they have a pretty solid lid-lock on me for the interim. Which was made very clear to me at my last debrief.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-03-11 22:21|| 2014-03-11 22:21|| Front Page Top

#13 You're the man OS :-) I absolutely enjoy your and Pappy's assessments.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-03-11 22:23|| 2014-03-11 22:23|| Front Page Top

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