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| Adminstration Warns Fed Agencies To Be On The Lookout For Despondent And Grumpy Employees |
| 2011-01-06 |
| The Obama administration is telling federal agencies to take tough new steps to prevent more WikiLeaks embarrassments, including instituting "insider threat" programs to search out disgruntled employees who might be inclined to leak classified documents. As part of these programs, agency officials are being asked to determine ways to "detect behavioral changes" among employees who might have access to classified material. A very detailed 11-page memo drafted by U.S. intelligence officials and distributed by Jacob J. Lew, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, suggests that agencies use psychiatrists and sociologists to measure the "relative happiness" of workers or their "despondence and grumpiness" as a way to assess their trustworthiness. The memo was sent this week to senior officials at all agencies that use classified material. Also be on the lookout for employees who are Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey. And tall, pale, white women with black hair who like apples. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #11 What the h311 do federal tit suckers have to be unhappy about????? They have garaunteed jobs at obsessive pay and perks. Alan, would you be terribly upset if this DoN civilian told you to "go screw yourself, you ignorant primate"? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2011-01-06 22:23 |
| #10 Forget the social workers. Bring in the commissars. |
| Posted by: SR-71 2011-01-06 19:13 |
| #9 "George Orwell called it 'facecrime'" I don't know where Orwell is buried, but wherever it is, if they could just hook a dynamo to his spinning corpse, they could provide limitless power to everyone in a 100-mile radius. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2011-01-06 18:02 |
#8 George Orwell called it "facecrime":"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself -- anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called." |
| Posted by: Omaing White7048 2011-01-06 17:54 |
| #7 It's wen the bitching STOPS that they should become concerned; not before! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-01-06 17:09 |
| #6 Sexist pigs! Y'all realize they're going to go after PMS-ing women first, right? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-01-06 17:04 |
| #5 suggests that agencies use |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-01-06 16:52 |
| #4 Compulsive mattress tag rippers are also considered dangerous. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2011-01-06 16:50 |
| #3 Those who are not happy with the moral boosting beatings will be shot. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2011-01-06 16:47 |
| #2 Keep only the gruntled employees on staff, fire the rest. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-01-06 14:28 |
| #1 What the h311 do federal tit suckers have to be unhappy about????? They have garaunteed jobs at obsessive pay and perks. I think that this is a warmup for this clique's desire to force this sort of "screening" on all citizens. If he had the time and the troops I'm sure that the Obamanation would quickly cotton on to the whole gulag paradigm. |
| Posted by: Alan Cramer 2011-01-06 14:02 |