(9 am. – promoted by DDadmin)
White House’s ‘insider threat’ program targets federal employees for surveillance
RawStory this morning…
In an effort to prevent another Bradley Manning, the Obama administration is urging all federal government agencies to watch its employees for signs they may be leaking classified information.
In a memo dated Monday, Jacob J. Lew, the director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, directed government agencies that deal with classified information to ensure that they are in compliance with secrecy rules brought in after WikiLeaks’ release of classified material.
The document (PDF), which was leaked to NBC less than 48 hours after it was written, urges agencies to develop an “insider threat program” that would monitor employees for “behavioral changes” indicating they may be leaking classified documents or be willing to do so.
The document calls on agencies to hire psychiatrists and sociologists to measure the “despondence or grumpiness” of federal employees in order to “gauge trustworthiness.” It also urges the use of polygraph machines, and the monitoring of computer activities and signs of “high occurrences of foreign travel.”
Agencies are urged to “capture evidence of pre-employment and/or post-employment activities or participation in on-line media data mining sites like WikiLeaks or Open Leaks,” indicating that the administration wants to see personnel monitored even after they stop working for the federal government.
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As NBC noted, the White House may be [once again folding like a cheap suit] under pressure to show to the new Republican-dominated House that they are reacting swiftly and concretely to the WikiLeaks releases.
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“politician” should be a third choice for juries to make, and carry a mandatory minimum…
Have you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Sanity Party ?
Have you ever been west of the Mississippi River ?
Geebus H. Cricket on a Cracked Whore. These people are nuts.
early this morning in mishimas news.
“insider threat” programs that will ferret out disgruntled or untrustworthy employees….?
it seems to me the. most. untrustworthy. employees. are those public servants in congress & the white casa in DC
lets start there with the monitoring shall we?
let us limit their travel, cutting their access & privileges to only those they need to do their jobs and not an inch more or less.
they need to know we’re watching them & have the power to boot them out of their jobs
Edger, could you email me at [email protected] ?
I’m putting together a diary about Gates’ Pentagon budget cut sleight-of-hand, and don’t want to do it if you are. God, I hate spending hours on redundant blogs (story of my life, BTW, redundancy. ;o)
Dayen did a bit at fdl, but not very complete or correct, IMO.