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Researcher Fired At NSF After Government Questions Her Role As 1980s Activist
sciencehabit writes Valerie Barr was a tenured professor of computer science at Union College in Schenectady, New York, with a national reputation for her work improving computing education and attracting more women and minorities into the field. But federal investigators say that Barr lied during a routine background check about her affiliations with a domestic terrorist group that had ties to the two organizations to which she had belonged in the early 1980s. On 27 August, NSF said that her 'dishonest conduct' compelled them to cancel her temporary assignment immediately, at the end of the first of what was expected to be a 2-year stint. Colleagues who decry Barr's fate worry that the incident could make other scientists think twice about coming to work for NSF. In addition, Barr's case offers a rare glimpse into the practices of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), an obscure agency within the White House that wields vast power over the entire federal bureaucracy through its authority to vet recently hired workers.
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People who were also a member of that organization were members of a separate organization, which did. She did not make the connection, because in her mind the answer was emphatically "no, I certainly have not".
Then she's too fucking stupid to have her NSF job, because she was prison pen-pals with one of the armored truck robbery murdering members of M19CO.
If she can't "make the connection" then she's as dumb as a box of hammers.
A terrorist within their own soil and she gets a slap on the wrist.
Is it because she's white? Jewish?
> but one point of a background check is a test of your willingness to be full and open about your past
Don't make up shit. Seriously, don't do that.
Background checks are by the numbers, especially ones like this which are essentially pro-forma since it wasn't even for a security clearance , her job was a director in the division of undergraduate studies.
Even secret-level clearances require little more than a credit check. I know this because I held a secret clearance for about 15 years.