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Sex-crazed government workers could be leakers, Obama admin warns
The Daily Caller ^ | 7-10-2013

Posted on 07/10/2013 9:36:36 AM PDT by markomalley

Government workers with “a lust for money and sex” could be potential “insider threats” to the government, according to the Obama administration.

The Obama administration has quietly implemented the “Insider Threat Program” to force federal employees to report their co-workers if they identify signs that they might harm the government’s interests from within.

“Insiders who seek to harm U.S. security interests normally are either long-term plants or they are people who have been lured to betray their nation for ideological reasons, a lust for money or sex, or through blackmail,” warns the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive on its website, the federal government’s top counterintelligence agency.

The administration’s “Insider Threat Program” requires federal employees to report “indicators of insider threat behavior” among their own colleagues, in order to defend against potential spies and security leaks.

Obama created the program by executive order in October 2011, after soldier Bradley Manning leaked classified military information to Wikileaks. The program triggers investigations into federal employee conduct both in the office and online, where computer network monitoring systems patrol for “suspicious user behavior.”

The program requires federal workers to pay close attention to their colleagues’ lifestyle patterns — with odd working hours or unexplained travel indicators of suspicious activity.

But the federal government also identified “a lust for money or sex” as one of the primary motivating factors for espionage in its description of potential “insider threats” posted online prior to the public revelation Wednesday of Obama’s program.


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To: markomalley
Did some contract work at an Army base staffed mainly by civilians. Man, the level of dysfunction was mind-altering and, as far as I could tell, mainly due to a number of bad apples that could not be fired.

force federal employees to report their co-workers

So I say, enjoy! You cute little Obama voters, you.

61 posted on 07/10/2013 12:06:17 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: markomalley
“Insiders who seek to harm U.S. security interests normally are either long-term plants or they are people who have been lured to betray their nation for ideological reasons, a lust for money or sex, or through blackmail,” warns the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive on its website, the federal government’s top counterintelligence agency.

What about school children? Are they being taught to turn in their parents yet?

Why do I get the feeling liberals aren't going to be 'turned in' but conservatives will be? Old USSR type tricks - creepy totalitarians.

62 posted on 07/10/2013 2:08:41 PM PDT by GOPJ (In the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man is a dangerous extremist.. Greenfield)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Even horny (heterosexual) sailors are no match for a gay man in a bath house.

That's news to me. How do you know?

63 posted on 07/10/2013 4:50:56 PM PDT by OldNavyVet
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To: OldNavyVet

Because I WAS a horny sailor on shore leave.


64 posted on 07/10/2013 5:10:11 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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To: markomalley
“Insiders who seek to harm U.S. security interests normally are either long-term plants or they are people who have been lured to betray their nation for ideological reasons, a lust for money or sex, or through blackmail,” warns the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive on its website, the federal government’s top counterintelligence agency.

Ummmmm ... isn't this, like, counterintelligence 101?
65 posted on 07/10/2013 5:12:47 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: tanknetter

Oh, and they left out “ego”.


66 posted on 07/10/2013 5:14:24 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Good answer. Reminds me of some humorous sea stories.


67 posted on 07/10/2013 5:37:17 PM PDT by OldNavyVet
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To: OldNavyVet

Then you know the difference between a sea story and a fairy tale. A fairy tale begins “Once upon a time” and a sea story begins with “Now, this is no sh#t!”


68 posted on 07/10/2013 5:42:51 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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