[Haddit]

NASA has argued that requiring employees to submit to the investigations was not intrusive and that the directive followed a Bush administration policy applying to millions of civil servants and contractors.

[proxy_user]

These guys are already employed there. It is a change to previously-agreed working conditions.

[mountainlyons]

Kinda throws the doors wide open for spies. I had a security clearance 35 years ago. You couldn’t pull that then.

[bill1952]

Big f*ckin deal.

I had to pass a complete background check to work at Sikorsky and it didn;t bother me one whit.

Personally, I would just eliminate the job descriptions if the 9th circus had to intervene, and start again.

[TheBattman]

Heck - a BUNCH of private sector jobs now require background checks... why shouldn’t working at JPL be any different?

Runaway Judicial System, Inc.

[zerosix]

This defies common sense, employment is NOT a right but a privilege and as such has certain obligations on the part of the employee to continue that employment.

Any JPL employee who objects to background checks, has something he/she does not want their employer to know about them and do not need the Constitution to protect their jobs as it was always a privilege NOT A RIGHT!

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[Salgak]

Gee, NASA gets some cleared work and needs cleared employees.

What’s so difficult about that ?

Jobs change, and their requirements change with them. . .

Adapt or die. .