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The United States gets very offended by espionage activity, because we would never do it to anyone else. They promise. Not a single satellite. No high altitude spy planes. No high altitude long range supersonic spy planes (we retired all of these, we promise). No remote control spy planes. No flock of agencies with covert operations world wide. Nope, not the US. Keep your spies out of our country, we don't do it to you.

    Excuse me, there are a couple nice men in black suits knocking at my door that just want to ask me a few questions.

Yeah, that's no longer there.

It's now been posted by the Federation of American Scientists.

There are, however, a number of other contracting briefs and presentations posted here

http://www.dia.mil/contracting/briefs/Tuesday%20Ge neralSession%201130%20Everett.ppt

Alabama is also home to the Missile and Space Intelligence Center (MSIC).

Just take a look, the Defense Intelligence Agency has a "kids' site", the CIA has a kids' site, the NSA has a website, and even the State Department has a kid's site where you can learn exciting things about SecState Rice meeting Elmo...

Sure, some of them have a little bit of recruiting-type material on them, but most of it links back to the "grown-up" site and I've yet to meet a 4th grader who wants to be an analyst or diplomat when he or she grows up. There's a fair amount of "say no to drugs" material as well, which makes sense in any case.

I wonder if there's legislation somewhere requiring all government agencies to put up a kid's site. My money is that yes, there's some requirement somewhere for this. It's the only possible explanation for some of these exceedingly lame websites - they just gave them to an intern or flunkie to throw together real fast to meet regulations.

References:

1. Classification guidelines
2. More info on FOUO
3. Document marking guidelines
4. EO 12958, which gives the authority to classify information

You should remember that the men and women who defend this country do so largely without public knowledge of their activities and methods, for obvious reasons. They do so often at the expense of an orderly family life, friends they can confide in, and even their lives. They have strict rules by which they must follow, and make obligations which last them for the rest of their lives, even if they leave public service. A polygraph from time to time means nothing to them, nor did it to me when I was an applicant. If you're going to criticize polygraphs, or the people that take them, go right ahead, but please give some privacy to the hiring process for people who are out there risking their lives on your behalf.

If you feel that I'm a government shill, I invite you to apply for a position at the NSA, CIA, or DIA. It doesn't even have to be in Operations. I know for a fact that the government is looking for highly talented people like you.

Actually, this is a DIA thing.
Go here for the low down on
employment criteria.

Probably from here:

DIA Information Technology Acquisition Support Center (ITASC)

Fun stuff!

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