LOL. Riiiiiiight....
Posted on 09/20/2016 6:35:38 AM PDT by RitchieAprile
So, our government is getting bigger, and another department is being born.
I feel much safer now.......
WE DO NOT NEED OR WANT another federal bureaucracy.
Just do some house cleaning and firing at the current agency to put them in line.
““It will have a politically appointed director, will be headquartered in D.C. and be a full member of the Performance Accountability Council, so it aligns with customers for increased accountability and formulation of policy. “
It’s already a failure. Politically appointed means corruption. This should be an agency contracted out to the private sector.
It seems to me the number of breaches was over 100 million and over a year ago at that. They must have given away all the information by now. Isn’t it a bit late to fix their lack of security? Kinda like the old firefighter wisecrack
“At least we saved the FOUNDATION!”
Are they going to offer a direct download feature to the Chinese government this time?
Because in your world, it makes sense to have a crony capitalist with a database of CIA agents.
“WE DO NOT NEED OR WANT another federal bureaucracy.
Just do some house cleaning and firing at the current agency to put them in line.”
I’m confused, you do not want another federal bureaucracy, and want the current agency fired. OK, then who does the security clearance investigations work?
IMO, this work should be centralized in one agency so the investigations and clearances are consistent throughout the alphabet agencies. Such as, a DoD clearance would equate to a NSA clearance so they can swap info.
IMO, the problem is not the creation of another agency, it’s how all of them are mismanaged by poor elected officials, obama and crew are the absolute perfect examples of very poor management.
Now there are agencies that can go away all together, the EPA is at the top of my list.
Yeah, right. Until the government starts imposing real responsibility and accountability in the bureaucracy, reorganizations will never make any difference.
Second verse, same as the first....
More shuffling of deck chairs on the Titanic....yawn....
My money says that a democrat campaign donor got this contract.
“(NBIB) will be a much different organization than its predecessor, the Federal Investigative Services.”
It will have a fresh new smell?
LOL. Riiiiiiight....
Because in your world, it makes sense to have a crony capitalist with a database of CIA agents.
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I get what you’re saying but there are some unique non-profit companies who have long established, trusted relationships with the government who could do this better than contracting out to a ‘crony capitalist’ or attempting to establish yet another bureaucracy. Relying on incompetent and uncaring bureaucrats to process clearances and safeguard the information clearly hasn’t worked well.
I think a third alternative like this has merit and should have been seriously considered, but the drive to expand government never ends.
You could make a lot of money on such bets. Those who donate get ‘consideration’, often in the form of lucrative contracts. I can assure that is a fact.
This is one area where work farmed out to the private sector (thanks Al Gore and reinventing government) needs to be brought back in (insourced). And back under DoD, not some large federal HR agency (OPM). You can’t do national security investigations for profit. Contractor USIS was found to have been “flushing” cases for higher profits. These companies doing background investigations now are hiring young inexperienced kids out of college as the investigators and it’s become a money-making operation for the contractors. This industry makes “War Dogs” look respectable.
A number of years ago, I interviewed for and rejected an offer to babysit an off-site clone of a server used to conduct/track, etc, background investigations. I had worked on contract at the main site, and found the contracted support to be lacking. I figured out that this would have been a cherry job, but I chickened out when the supposed technical program manager of the 8a corporation could not correctly answer one single technical question I had. Contracting out, particularly involving non-competitive bids by 8a’s is not always the solution.
Government contracting is a quagmire on its good days.
My estimate is that less than 5% of the contracts are awarded based on merit and successfully achieve their missions in the time-frames promised.
There are many reasons for this—political fixing and kickbacks, affirmative action and other games, quick buck artists running full or partial scams, brain-dead contract officers working for .gov, failure to punish all of above, etc....
Oh, you want accountability? Take a number. Line forms to the right. Yeah, right there behind the email guys.
If the past is any guide, their “improvements” to eQIP will make the process of getting or renewing a security clearance even more arduous and complicated. When I did my routine 10 year renewal application in 2014, the printed copy of the eQIP file ran over 100 pages. This was for a secret clearance I don’t actually use. I have to have it because it is a condition of employment imposed on contractors by DoD.
Thank the Lord, it was the last one I ever have to do. The ten year time frame falls well after my final retirement date. Unless, of course, the IT geniuses convince their bosses at OPM to scrap the current security clearance documentation in total and require everybody to resubmit.
A relative who is in a position to know says that there were firings over the OPM security clearance data breech. 21.5 million records potentially stolen! Here’s a Wikipedia article on it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management_data_breach
[Eisenhower's "Military-Industrial Complex" Speech Origins and Significance]
US National Archives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-jvHynP9Y
Was Ike right?
Put the last 55+ years in the context of what he tried to warn us about... and you've got the present Industrial-strength Oligarchic-Kleptocratic fraternal L.I.F.E.R. R.E.M.F. cluster frack, operating behind an occult facade of "secrecy".
BOHICA!
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