Posted on 02/03/2017 9:19:59 AM PST by shove_it
Federal employees worried that President Donald Trump will gut their agencies are creating new email addresses, signing up for encrypted messaging apps and looking for other, protected ways to push back against the new administration’s agenda.
Whether inside the Environmental Protection Agency, within the Foreign Service, on the edges of the Labor Department or beyond, employees are using new technology as well as more old-fashioned approaches — such as private face-to-face meetings — to organize letters, talk strategy, or contact media outlets and other groups to express their dissent.
The goal is to get their message across while not violating any rules covering workplace communications, which can be monitored by the government and could potentially get them fired.
At the EPA, a small group of career employees — numbering less than a dozen so far — are using an encrypted messaging app to discuss what to do if Trump’s political appointees undermine their agency’s mission to protect public health and the environment, flout the law, or delete valuable scientific data that the agency has been collecting for years, sources told POLITICO.
Fearing for their jobs, the employees began communicating incognito using the app Signal shortly after Trump’s inauguration. Signal, like WhatsApp and other mobile phone software, encrypts all communications, making it more difficult for hackers to gain access to them...
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solution: Fire them!
Close it down! Let them find jobs in the private sector.
Any competent IT department should be able to pick up the messages and attachments if it is done over the Government network.
I would think they could be charged with espionage if they don’t supply the keys.
Fire them all.
Start completely over from scratch.
I guess they haven’t learned their lesson.....................MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF THESE SEDITIOUS TRAITORS............Law says: 20 Years for EACH OFFENSE................
Anyone found doing this is, I’m pretty sure, violating federal laws and should be fired, then prosecuted.
EVERY agency of the federal government is going to need a thorough housecleaning and fumigation.
Obama had 8 years to embed true believers throughout the entire government during his usurpation.
That usurpation was enabled by the GOP.
President Trump needs to resort to this same tactic. No use telegraphing your intentions to fire these Obama moles. Walk up to them in the morning and surprise them.
They serve at the pleasure of the President, no?
Fire them or arrest them for TREASON and sedition.
All this crap stops now!
Actually, prosecution for destroying and/or hiding government records is appropriate, including the necessary relinquishment of their job.
First make it illegal to perform Govt business on personal devices, penalty of being fired without benefits included. Then lock down the govt equipment, only allow encryption that is supplied by the govt. All govt emails should be immediately accessible by the agency management just like in the real world. These emails and communications belong to the govt and privacy should not be expected, just like in the private world.
They can’t hide from the long arm of the Trump. The other employees know who the commie ‘rats are and should be encouraged to share what they know about the ‘rats, with the WH.
Sedition and treason.
Fire EVERYONE hired AFTER 2007!
Somebody has been lying to me all these years ?
Shouldn’t the NSA have a record of everything from anytime and anywhere ?
Yep.
Hiding your correspondence inside a federal agency to avoid accountability is a crime. After firing them, jail them.
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