I never had a SSBI, I had a special clearance. I don't consider my clearance to be "normal", nor was it civilian. I don't discount that changes have been made since my initial clearance. That said, working in defense I have not seen that much change.
Try reading the Constitution and Bill of Rights for the United States of America. As a US citizen, you are a member of a Republic which is not subject to any other Government. The US participates in the UN, but is not a subject of the UN. Laws provisioned by the UN can not be followed if the laws conflict with our own law. Notice that the Constitution is referred to as "The Law of the Land".
Most people I know in the field never use the term Top Secret, or SSBI. As mentioned previously TS became rather meaningless in the 80s. If you get your initial clearance at 18-22, then they do talk to elementary school teachers for a SSBI (obviously within 10 years). Higher levels of clearance require further investigation, polygraph, and more.
Renewals do not require any investigation as long as you stay out of trouble.
Actually there is a legal question since Obama claimed he did not need the approval of Congress to attack Syria. It is that statement that now has 14 members of congress demanding that he follow the law or face impeachment in addition to several members of the Senate expressing similar statements and voicing concerns.
The War Powers Act of 1973 limits the President's ability declarations to responding to an attack against the USA (sovereign territory, attack on the military, and a few other cases). It can not be done offensively, and was specifically enacted due to abuse of Police action.
I never stated that the President could not order military action, I stated that he can not declare war. As others have pointed out already, the spirit of the War Powers Act is to ensure that we can respond to a first strike. There is a massive difference between the President ordering protection of the homeland and starting a foreign war. It is an impeachable offense in fact, which is why both Bush's went to Congress. There was no eminent threat to US territory in either Gulf 1 or Gulf 2.
It would be fair to for you to claim an opinion that my comment was also a generalization fallacy, but that does not dismiss your fallacy.
That said, I would argue that people claiming that main stream media is not generating propaganda fail to see reality. This of course would make your claim of a generalization fallacy false.
My comment regarding propaganda is not a new or unique thought, and factually it is very correct if you care to investigate. See Gary Allen, Mark Dice, and countless others for references. An exceptional reference is Mark Dice's "Illuminati Fact vs. Fiction" which contains hundreds of references and Gary Allen's 'None Dare Call it Conspiracy" lists nearly as many references. Simply look at every MSM station and how they all claim without providing any facts that Assad dropped sarin gas on his own people, and how they ignore facts numerous other intelligence agencies have discounting his use (most of which are not Russia). Look at how the same media backed a President claiming Iraq had WMDs and was about to dirty bomb New York, or how they ignore Fast and Furious, or the GOA parties, or Benghazi, or thousands of other real examples. Of course looking at who owns and controls the media in the US is a rational and logical starting point.
Back to the first point, you originally claimed that Snowden was an 18/19 year old. That statement was wrong, and is still wrong.
How many times do we have to tell the Government that they must obey the law? Only Congress can declare war! If the CIA is found to be engaging in acts of war with foreign nations, they need to be held accountable. If politicians, such as Obama, defy the constitution they need to be held accountable. If corporations are found to be engaging in acts of war, they need to be held accountable. This is obviously a request for you, the people, to demand that the law be enforced.
If you start with the agents and put them on trial for treason, evidence will grow for higher ups. There is no immunity in this simply because someone was following orders. We, the people, need to stop accepting law breakers sitting in public offices.
We have let things slide for over 40 years, and if you keep ignoring the severity of the situation we won't have a USA or a world worth living in.
Wait, you call "experts" morons while claiming the only thing that matters is cost? I think you need to consider your ad hominems much more carefully. Most everything else you state is stories to back that position, and not reality. Switch gear made within the last 10 years all have VLAN capabilities which allow separation without additional hardware. Your "dodgy default-passworded" coment is foolish, because password policy is flexible and cdoes not have to be "dodgy". If a company really had to worry more about someone with bolt cutters than WI-FI access, we would not have such severe security problems now.
This was never stated. "This problem cannot be solved with simplistic "if you don't want people to hack it, don't connect it to the Internet" solutions" I did not go into the depth of the thousands of things that can be done. My statements were that an "everything always connected to everything" approach was wrong, and gave some examples to demonstrate that the approach was wrong.
There is no need to either be networked to everything, or having a computer buried in concrete. That is an absurd claim, and perhaps you did not intend to provide such a poor false analogy.
Experts have never said it's all or nothing, but as I defined a hybrid approach so that you protect what needs protection.
Just like we do for application and OS security, we use a triangle and move a pointer toward where we have the most concerns. The pointer should never bee in the corner of an angle.
If you want "networked" configuration nodes, an isolated network should be the only thing accessing equipment. That node should not access anything else, or any other networks. If you want a monitoring node, counters coming from devices should never be writable to anything but local hardware. Monitoring nodes can access other networks for consolidation of data, but not be writable to other networks.
I really can not understand how people continue to believe that everything should be connected to everything. Worse, that everything should be able to write to everything else. After nearly 3 decades of being shown it's a bad idea, maybe the mind set of executives should change? It's like continually banging your head on a wall, and will feel really good when you finally stop!
Does the Government mandate this configuration as a few here have implied? If so, maybe it's time to boot shitbags out of the Government?
If you read up in the thread, I claimed that minimum wage and income tax should apply to migrant workers. I'm not discounting that people are paid "by the bushel", but stating that there is no minimum wage law that covers such a scale (and as you imply, no such scale would be fair). Obviously this means taxing migrant workers is impossible. This in turn requires that your and my income taxes are increased to cover a known loss so that someone else can make a lot more money.
If you have financial problems, it would be easier for you to succumb to bribery. If you have sexual deviancy it would be easy to compromise you through blackmail. If you have drug dealing friends, you may not care very much about law. All of these things are relevant to the job and your clearance.
Special clearance is a type of Top Secret. There is really no such thing as "Top Secret" like there is with "Secret". TS has had qualifiers for decades. Since my clearance was in the Army, you are wrong in speculating that they don't go back to elementary school teachers. How much they dig is related to what the clearance is for.
Please show me a minimum wage law that allows such a pay scale. Go ahead and search, I won't wait because there is no such law. Since there is no such law, go back and read what I said again.
You are speculating incorrectly. I held a special clearance and they went back and talked to elementary school teachers, old friends, etc... If they come up with concerns, they dig further than they did with me.
The 4 million number includes people that have held a clearance for decades. Renewals do not take much investigation.
In other words, if it was 4million new investigations it would be cost prohibitive. It's not, so don't make up stories.
Many military jobs require TS special clearances and those are given to 18/19 year old people. It's actually a benefit to get them that young, since they are still duped by propaganda and have yet to see the illusions being painted by main stream media.
Minimum wage is an hourly wage, you are making up stories. Don't go by what someone does or what someone tells you, but rather demand that the law be followed.
There are tons of jobs, people won't apply for them. (You're presumably going to claim they're not being paid fairly..
I don't make any such presumption. I'm claiming that opportunities should be here for US Citizens, and currently they are not. A generalization fallacy does not make a worker shortage true. I do understand that some things may require a migrant workforce. Many things don't, and many of those jobs are being filled by people that should not be there.
Assuming there are real shortages, why do we not enforce minimum wage and taxation of migrant workers? Shouldn't they be paying taxes on income just like you legally have to do? Laws need to be applied unilaterally, or we have lost all sense of justice (by Socrates' definition)
But they're manual labor that could presumably eventually be replaced by machines.)
Robots are not saviors, and often cost more than human labor. Some things of course are better and safer being done by robotics. It's false to claim that everything is cheaper that way, and wrong to claim it's better for society to have everything done that way.
We had plenty against both Gulf wars, though the only people we generally saw in media were comedians. Ron Paul, for example, was anti-war and labelled "crazy" and unpatriotic amongst other things. Personally I was for Gulf 1 to kick Iraq out of Kuwait. That was mostly justifiable, though there was a tremendous amount of lies in MSM during that one too. I and a hefty percentage of people were against Gulf 2, and media shut down opposition claiming people were pro terrorist and radicals.
Mmmm, I'm a liar which is why the yellow cake scare is in Snopes as well as thousands of other articles debunking the alleged "intelligence" from Italy on Iraq purchasing yellow cake like Wiki.. Too bad you don't have enough balls to post with a name for public ridicule.
Please go ahead and quote me more easy to debunk main stream media war propaganda under a real name you coward!
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The article is very clear that it was not an equipment malfunction.
I am picturing sheets of black tape covered pages with enlightening words like "The" and "And" clearly visible.
I never had a SSBI, I had a special clearance. I don't consider my clearance to be "normal", nor was it civilian. I don't discount that changes have been made since my initial clearance. That said, working in defense I have not seen that much change.
Try reading the Constitution and Bill of Rights for the United States of America. As a US citizen, you are a member of a Republic which is not subject to any other Government. The US participates in the UN, but is not a subject of the UN. Laws provisioned by the UN can not be followed if the laws conflict with our own law. Notice that the Constitution is referred to as "The Law of the Land".
Most people I know in the field never use the term Top Secret, or SSBI. As mentioned previously TS became rather meaningless in the 80s. If you get your initial clearance at 18-22, then they do talk to elementary school teachers for a SSBI (obviously within 10 years). Higher levels of clearance require further investigation, polygraph, and more.
Renewals do not require any investigation as long as you stay out of trouble.
Actually there is a legal question since Obama claimed he did not need the approval of Congress to attack Syria. It is that statement that now has 14 members of congress demanding that he follow the law or face impeachment in addition to several members of the Senate expressing similar statements and voicing concerns.
The War Powers Act of 1973 limits the President's ability declarations to responding to an attack against the USA (sovereign territory, attack on the military, and a few other cases). It can not be done offensively, and was specifically enacted due to abuse of Police action.
I never stated that the President could not order military action, I stated that he can not declare war. As others have pointed out already, the spirit of the War Powers Act is to ensure that we can respond to a first strike. There is a massive difference between the President ordering protection of the homeland and starting a foreign war. It is an impeachable offense in fact, which is why both Bush's went to Congress. There was no eminent threat to US territory in either Gulf 1 or Gulf 2.
It would be fair to for you to claim an opinion that my comment was also a generalization fallacy, but that does not dismiss your fallacy.
That said, I would argue that people claiming that main stream media is not generating propaganda fail to see reality. This of course would make your claim of a generalization fallacy false.
My comment regarding propaganda is not a new or unique thought, and factually it is very correct if you care to investigate. See Gary Allen, Mark Dice, and countless others for references. An exceptional reference is Mark Dice's "Illuminati Fact vs. Fiction" which contains hundreds of references and Gary Allen's 'None Dare Call it Conspiracy" lists nearly as many references. Simply look at every MSM station and how they all claim without providing any facts that Assad dropped sarin gas on his own people, and how they ignore facts numerous other intelligence agencies have discounting his use (most of which are not Russia). Look at how the same media backed a President claiming Iraq had WMDs and was about to dirty bomb New York, or how they ignore Fast and Furious, or the GOA parties, or Benghazi, or thousands of other real examples. Of course looking at who owns and controls the media in the US is a rational and logical starting point.
Back to the first point, you originally claimed that Snowden was an 18/19 year old. That statement was wrong, and is still wrong.
How many times do we have to tell the Government that they must obey the law? Only Congress can declare war! If the CIA is found to be engaging in acts of war with foreign nations, they need to be held accountable. If politicians, such as Obama, defy the constitution they need to be held accountable. If corporations are found to be engaging in acts of war, they need to be held accountable. This is obviously a request for you, the people, to demand that the law be enforced.
If you start with the agents and put them on trial for treason, evidence will grow for higher ups. There is no immunity in this simply because someone was following orders. We, the people, need to stop accepting law breakers sitting in public offices.
We have let things slide for over 40 years, and if you keep ignoring the severity of the situation we won't have a USA or a world worth living in.
Wait, you call "experts" morons while claiming the only thing that matters is cost? I think you need to consider your ad hominems much more carefully. Most everything else you state is stories to back that position, and not reality. Switch gear made within the last 10 years all have VLAN capabilities which allow separation without additional hardware. Your "dodgy default-passworded" coment is foolish, because password policy is flexible and cdoes not have to be "dodgy". If a company really had to worry more about someone with bolt cutters than WI-FI access, we would not have such severe security problems now.
This was never stated. "This problem cannot be solved with simplistic "if you don't want people to hack it, don't connect it to the Internet" solutions" I did not go into the depth of the thousands of things that can be done. My statements were that an "everything always connected to everything" approach was wrong, and gave some examples to demonstrate that the approach was wrong.
There is no need to either be networked to everything, or having a computer buried in concrete. That is an absurd claim, and perhaps you did not intend to provide such a poor false analogy.
Experts have never said it's all or nothing, but as I defined a hybrid approach so that you protect what needs protection.
Just like we do for application and OS security, we use a triangle and move a pointer toward where we have the most concerns. The pointer should never bee in the corner of an angle.
Apologies, I misunderstood where your thoughts were.
If you want "networked" configuration nodes, an isolated network should be the only thing accessing equipment. That node should not access anything else, or any other networks. If you want a monitoring node, counters coming from devices should never be writable to anything but local hardware. Monitoring nodes can access other networks for consolidation of data, but not be writable to other networks.
I really can not understand how people continue to believe that everything should be connected to everything. Worse, that everything should be able to write to everything else. After nearly 3 decades of being shown it's a bad idea, maybe the mind set of executives should change? It's like continually banging your head on a wall, and will feel really good when you finally stop!
Does the Government mandate this configuration as a few here have implied? If so, maybe it's time to boot shitbags out of the Government?
Generalization fallacy. It would also only apply to Manning since Snowden was near 30 and not an 18/19 year old.
If you read up in the thread, I claimed that minimum wage and income tax should apply to migrant workers. I'm not discounting that people are paid "by the bushel", but stating that there is no minimum wage law that covers such a scale (and as you imply, no such scale would be fair). Obviously this means taxing migrant workers is impossible. This in turn requires that your and my income taxes are increased to cover a known loss so that someone else can make a lot more money.
If you have financial problems, it would be easier for you to succumb to bribery. If you have sexual deviancy it would be easy to compromise you through blackmail. If you have drug dealing friends, you may not care very much about law. All of these things are relevant to the job and your clearance.
Special clearance is a type of Top Secret. There is really no such thing as "Top Secret" like there is with "Secret". TS has had qualifiers for decades. Since my clearance was in the Army, you are wrong in speculating that they don't go back to elementary school teachers. How much they dig is related to what the clearance is for.
Please show me a minimum wage law that allows such a pay scale. Go ahead and search, I won't wait because there is no such law. Since there is no such law, go back and read what I said again.
You are speculating incorrectly. I held a special clearance and they went back and talked to elementary school teachers, old friends, etc... If they come up with concerns, they dig further than they did with me.
The 4 million number includes people that have held a clearance for decades. Renewals do not take much investigation.
In other words, if it was 4million new investigations it would be cost prohibitive. It's not, so don't make up stories.
Many military jobs require TS special clearances and those are given to 18/19 year old people. It's actually a benefit to get them that young, since they are still duped by propaganda and have yet to see the illusions being painted by main stream media.
Minimum wage is an hourly wage, you are making up stories. Don't go by what someone does or what someone tells you, but rather demand that the law be followed.
I have no idea what you are trying to imply.
There are tons of jobs, people won't apply for them. (You're presumably going to claim they're not being paid fairly..
I don't make any such presumption. I'm claiming that opportunities should be here for US Citizens, and currently they are not. A generalization fallacy does not make a worker shortage true. I do understand that some things may require a migrant workforce. Many things don't, and many of those jobs are being filled by people that should not be there.
Assuming there are real shortages, why do we not enforce minimum wage and taxation of migrant workers? Shouldn't they be paying taxes on income just like you legally have to do? Laws need to be applied unilaterally, or we have lost all sense of justice (by Socrates' definition)
But they're manual labor that could presumably eventually be replaced by machines.)
Robots are not saviors, and often cost more than human labor. Some things of course are better and safer being done by robotics. It's false to claim that everything is cheaper that way, and wrong to claim it's better for society to have everything done that way.
We had plenty against both Gulf wars, though the only people we generally saw in media were comedians. Ron Paul, for example, was anti-war and labelled "crazy" and unpatriotic amongst other things. Personally I was for Gulf 1 to kick Iraq out of Kuwait. That was mostly justifiable, though there was a tremendous amount of lies in MSM during that one too. I and a hefty percentage of people were against Gulf 2, and media shut down opposition claiming people were pro terrorist and radicals.
Mmmm, I'm a liar which is why the yellow cake scare is in Snopes as well as thousands of other articles debunking the alleged "intelligence" from Italy on Iraq purchasing yellow cake like Wiki.. Too bad you don't have enough balls to post with a name for public ridicule.
Please go ahead and quote me more easy to debunk main stream media war propaganda under a real name you coward!