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“Insider Threat Program”: How the White House is keeping federal workers quiet (YIKES!)
Hot Air ^ | June 21,2013

Posted on 06/21/2013 6:41:30 AM PDT by SE Mom

President Barack Obama’s unprecedented initiative, known as the Insider Threat Program, is sweeping in its reach. It has received scant public attention even though it extends beyond the U.S. national security bureaucracies to most federal departments and agencies nationwide, including the Peace Corps, the Social Security Administration and the Education and Agriculture departments. It emphasizes leaks of classified material, but catchall definitions of “insider threat” give agencies latitude to pursue and penalize a range of other conduct.

Government documents reviewed by McClatchy illustrate how some agencies are using that latitude to pursue unauthorized disclosures of any information, not just classified material. They also show how millions of federal employees and contractors must watch for “high-risk persons or behaviors” among co-workers and could face penalties, including criminal charges, for failing to report them. Leaks to the media are equated with espionage.

“Hammer this fact home . . . leaking is tantamount to aiding the enemies of the United States,” says a June 1, 2012, Defense Department strategy for the program that was obtained by McClatchy.

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; coverup; fastandfurious; impeachnow; insiderthreatprogram; irs; itp; tyranny; whistleblower
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1 posted on 06/21/2013 6:41:30 AM PDT by SE Mom
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To: maggief; penelopesire; holdonnow; Perdogg; MestaMachine; thouworm

WHY isn’t this all OVER the news??


2 posted on 06/21/2013 6:45:18 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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leaking is tantamount to aiding the enemies of the United States

I'm beginning to believe we are their "enemies".
3 posted on 06/21/2013 6:47:44 AM PDT by Girlene
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To: SE Mom
Documents?
5 posted on 06/21/2013 6:48:56 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Islam offers choices: Convert, submit, or die.)
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To: SE Mom

SISSY PRESS won’t cover this....they think it’s COOL if they get no info and we turn into a totalitarian state!!


6 posted on 06/21/2013 6:49:17 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SE Mom

Funny how the Left encourage “Leakers” and Whistle Blowers” under Bush, and now the Left is actively seeking to silence them using any tactics. Libs, killing the free speech and constitution each and every day


7 posted on 06/21/2013 6:49:29 AM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: SE Mom

But weaponizing al Qaeda with MANPADs and WMD is not?


8 posted on 06/21/2013 6:49:36 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: SE Mom

Stalinism, as predicted


9 posted on 06/21/2013 6:49:50 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: Girlene

We ARE their enemies....not the terrorists, but Tea Partiers are the left’s enemies!


10 posted on 06/21/2013 6:50:07 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SE Mom; crosslink

Guess its time freepers need to distribute it!


11 posted on 06/21/2013 6:50:19 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then!)
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To: SE Mom

Better yet....why has Obama not been impeached yet? We know the answer to both. It IS madness!!

Liberal madness.


12 posted on 06/21/2013 6:50:19 AM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: Girlene
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13 posted on 06/21/2013 6:50:26 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Girlene

Had the same exact thought!


14 posted on 06/21/2013 6:50:48 AM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: penelopesire

Papers were drawn up in Illinois to impeach him when he was a senator. How’d that turn out for us? Managed to keep it quiet!


15 posted on 06/21/2013 6:53:31 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then!)
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To: SE Mom

TOTALITARIANSIM: Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao Zedong. This is what McCain, McConnell, Alexander, Romney, Graham, Snowe, Collins, Boehner, Dole (both of them), and all the rest of the Lame Party have allowed to happen.

Elected officials are also in the crosshairs.


16 posted on 06/21/2013 6:54:03 AM PDT by SC_Pete
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“...leaking is tantamount to aiding the enemies of the United States,”

No, dogbreath, this group in the WH ARE “the enemies of the United States”!


17 posted on 06/21/2013 6:54:25 AM PDT by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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To: hoosiermama

What papers?


18 posted on 06/21/2013 6:56:33 AM PDT by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)
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To: SE Mom

This tracks with the most recent Army retiree newsletter reminding us all that we’re still subject to UCMJ proceedings as retirees. No specific reasons given, but came off as a veiled threat.


19 posted on 06/21/2013 6:56:39 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: SkyPilot

FYSA


20 posted on 06/21/2013 6:56:50 AM PDT by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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