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Fed Goes Hunting For Malcontents

Posted by Soulskill on from the are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been-julian-assange dept.

snydeq writes "The wake of State Department document leaks to WikiLeaks may have the unhappy rousted from government agencies' 'privileged insiders' ranks, thanks to a recent memo from the US OMB asking agencies to spell out their strategies for minimizing insider risk. 'It's likely that federal contractors and government suppliers will also find themselves responding to this list of questions (PDF) and the central issue of preventing the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive and classified materials. In a key section of the memo, the OMB requests information on whether organizations are measuring the "trustworthiness" of their employees and whether they use a psychiatrist or sociologist to measure the unhappiness of an employee as a measure of trustworthiness.'"

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  1. The feds could stop this with a very simple law by MikeRT · · Score: -1, Troll

    It would only take a few pages....

    1) If a court of law determines that a piece of information was properly classified as Secret or Top Secret...

    2) for Secret you face life in prison.

    3) for Top Secret, you face execution.

    4) upon proper conviction, the federal government confiscates all of your earnings from the crime if they exist or confiscates an amount from your estate equal to what is confirmed was promised you by a foreign government.

    5) Your spouse and children, by law, cannot receive any government services except public education for at least five years.

    Before anyone accuses me of being vindictive with #5, allow me to explain...

    Every so often we find citizens of Chinese extraction who have been violating the law for YEARS in Secret positions. It's always some low to mid level guy at Boeing or Lockheed who has been handing over schematics and other data for years. Native US citizens usually do it for money, hence #4. Naturalized US citizens usually do it out of lingering loyalties to their old culture (which often happens to be a much more family-oriented culture too). That is why the federal government has to target them with a culturally sensitive move by targeting their family. The federal government needs to target each type of threat at the place where their incentives are.