Posted on 06/25/2015 10:02:35 AM PDT by Zakeet
Any info that could be used to blackmail or compromise a cleared person is reportable. Even if not reported, ve haf vays...
There’s always a silver lining. Now, out them.
Can you say or _even_ think about the blackmail power in this event? Chief Roberts is being blackmailed by elements of USG who have access to his NSA data gathering lawlessness.
The SF86 form requires you to divulge any information that could be used to blackmail you, from affairs to to drug use to illegitimate children to embarrassing secrets.
That is in addition to the financial background checks and criminal background checks.
In general, if you admit the problem (like drug addiction or an affair) and get treatment/counseling, you’ll often keep your job with extra supervision or reduced access. Don’t report it and they find out, and you lose the clearance and the job and ability to get clearance in the future.
I think the biggest hurdles I ever saw people face were a guy who wanted to visit Russia for two weeks with a relative only a few years after the Soviet Union fell and a guy, a family adopting a baby from China (he had TS clearance), and a man whose daughter was on vacation in Mexico when she was kidnapped for ransom. They were all up front and honest about intentions early on, got permission, got to get things resolved.
Don’t disclose your drunk driving ticket, and the next review that finds it, you get fired.
Note: And you should tell the security office when you’re getting divorced and a separating spouse accuses you of sexual abuse of the children or child abuse, just to make sure it doesn’t cost you your job.
What’s new?
The politicians have been operating like they’ve been blackmailed for many years.
And they probably have.
1. Because doing so identifies whether an employee is susceptable to blackmail
2. Because if an employee tells the truth on such matters during a background investigation they aren’t all that susceptable to blackmail.
The biggest thing that will kill you immediately on a background investigation is lying to pass the background investigation. Yes there are other factors as well, but they work in concert to create an overall profile of trustworthyness.
CJ Roberts likes to bake pies wearing only wearing an apron!
Our creepy government overseers collect information about private American citizen... so this story doesn't break my heat.
Wonder how they'll feel when the shoe's on the other foot. My I suggest the Chinese out Democrats first... our press gives that group a pass and their stories might be more interesting. Start with these people at the DOJ: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/06/23/doj-reason-subpoenas-gag-order/
That's true, but I've seen far worse things than what is mentioned in this article and they had no "extra supervision or reduced access". It tends to be all or nothing in my experience and 99.9% of the time it is all. My view of the personal questions is that they want to test your honesty. They have at least two ways of verifying the answers.
And in other news, government workers have to describe their sex lives on some form.
This is one hack I wish would end up on wikileaks.
Will “outing” them all do something useful, like reducing the size of the federal government by thirty percent?
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