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US Supreme Court Says NASA Background Checks OK
coondoggie writes "In a long-running dispute about privacy and security, the US Supreme Court today sided with NASA saying its background checks were not invasive and that the information required for not only NASA but most government positions was a reasonable security precaution and that sufficient privacy safeguards existed to prevent any improper disclosures. You may recall that in this case, 28 scientists and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory filed suit against the US government and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2007 saying that NASA's invasive background investigations as required by government regulations [inappropriately violate workers' privacy]."
Their job isn't to hire good engineers, it's to hire good AMERICANS!
Wasn't our early space program staffed with Nazis?
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Sort of, some were ex-Nazis, but point taken. That was the whole point of operation paperclip.
They were aiming for the stars, but accidentally hit London.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Speaking as someone who has been interviewed many times by the FBI re High School friends who were seeking a "Q" clearance, I can say the questions they asked about my friends were not intrusive and related directly to the character, honesty, and truthfulness of the candidate. I realize all of these are now outmoded and tired cliche instead of esteemed and admired character traits but that is the evolution of culture right there.
- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.