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Sen. Blumenthal Demands Lifting of IT 'Gag' Order (computerworld.com)
dcblogs writes: U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the layoff and replacement of IT workers by foreign workers at a state energy utility. But he is also demanding that the utility, Eversource Energy, drop a particularly restrictive non-disparagement clause that laid off employees had to sign to receive their severance. This clause bars discussion "that would tend to disparage or discredit" the utility. [emphasis added] He wants the employees, who had to train foreign replacements, to be able to state "honestly what happened to them."
Makes sense, but a state still has ultimate control over whether that company can do business within that state, correct? Otherwise, state regulation would be worthless and toothless.
The ability of states to regulate much of anything has been reduced through the years. It helps that the Federal Supreme court gets to decide what the Federal government can and cannot do. Do doubt if a state's Supreme Court was deciding things would be different.
I think you are refering to Approximations https://xkcd.com/1047/
Minimum threshold fixed. Thanks!
Look, I like capitalism as much as the next fella...however....
I find it really hard to believe that with all the universities in this country annually graduating hundreds of thousands (millions?) in disciplines ranging from engineering to mathematics, comp sci, physics, etc. that it is necessary to import tech labor. When you consider all the additional inefficiency introduced in the form of language difficulties and what I've often found to be poor training (every problem isn't one that can be solved by consultants by the pound excreting bad java code), I find it hard to believe that it's even worth the effort to game the system in the first place. Yet here we are with legions of billion dollar companies that exist solely to exploit loopholes in the US immigration system while taking advantage of citizen workers and taking fat chunks of income ostensibly paid to the poor saps that are being pimped out to line their pockets.
Frankly, I don't believe that a tech labor shortage exists. What exists is a market distortion that's perpetuated by a corrupt group of companies that line the pockets of politicians in order to siphon their share of guest worker salaries. Just say no.
Were any of those "1000 cases" of classified data actually classified and marked as such when they arrived in Clinton's mailbox? None that I've heard of. In that case it's not something Clinton should be prosecuted for.
It's not quite that simple.
First, if a document / email / etc. contains classified information at the SECRET or higher level, but is marked UNCLASSIFIED, it is still spillage. That's part of the reason why properly marked documents have a classification for each paragraph. It gets that anal.
Second, speaking as someone who does / has held both Secret and Top Secret clearances (which is why I am posting anonymously), a person with those clearances is expected to be able to identify when material MAY have been marked with the incorrect classification. Not everything, every time; that is a function of experience and training.
Perhaps even more importantly, if she is claiming to have this great breadth of experience working in government as a rational of why she is qualified for the office of POTUS, then she cannot also claim that the material in those emails sent on an unclassified system never made her stop to think "Gee... it is possible that this is information shouldn't be on an UNCLASS system?" What would be her argument... "Gee, I guess I just don't have enough experience to ask the question to the right people, just to be sure?"
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