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US Intelligence Officials To Monitor Federal Employees With Security Clearances

Posted by samzenpus on from the watching-the-watchers dept.

First time accepted submitter Trachman writes in with news about a monitoring program designed to help stop future leaks of government documents. "U.S. intelligence officials are planning a sweeping system of electronic monitoring that would tap into government, financial and other databases to scan the behavior of many of the 5 million federal employees with secret clearances, current and former officials told The Associated Press. The system is intended to identify rogue agents, corrupt officials and leakers, and draws on a Defense Department model under development for more than a decade, according to officials and documents reviewed by the AP."

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  1. 1984 Cascade by xdor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But who monitors the monitors?

  2. Re:Fourth Amendment by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is it not more unreasonable that we have five million people (out of a total of just under 320 million, with labor force size ~155 million, unknown percentage of that with characteristics that make them getting a clearance rather unlikely) involved in Super Secret Uncle Sam Stuff?
    br> I'm less interested in crying for the poor, poor, clearanceholders and more interested in why a touch over three percent of the US labor force spends its time pushing classified paper.

  3. Bullshit by AF_Cheddar_Head · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Civil rights never go out the window. As a cleared government employee I have not waived my civil rights and would never do so. I have agreed to allow some intrusive inspection of my life but I still have and will always have my civil rights.

    Idiots like you who think that national security trumps all are what is wrong with today's national security infrastructure.