Posted on 08/31/2007 9:15:39 AM PDT by N3WBI3
Ferreting out communist spies is never a waste of resources, nor is putting in security controls for technology that is desired by our enemies.
you go on vile personal attacks...think you're posting this from your mom's basement
LOL at the irony of your attempted BS. If anything's in question it's if you're posting from Russia.
You only confirm what I said.
NASA calls on employees to permit investigators to delve into medical, financial and past employment records, and to question friends and acquaintances about everything from their finances to sex lives, according to the suit. The requirements apply to everyone from janitors to visiting professors.That is normally reserved for positions requiring access to classified information. Now that I think about it, that sounds like a Single Scope Background Investigation, normally reserved for those requiring Top Secret clearance with access to Special Compartmented Information.
And they're wasting resources doing it for the janitors now.
Fits the one worlder mindset perfectly doesn’t it:
Security checks of US Government employees = “wasted resources”
Bogus of course, it doesn't have to be a top secret position to do a background check, but whatever excuse you can come up with to justify not checking for potential spies.
There, fixed it. BTW, these are not US Government employees, they are JPL employees working on contracts from NASA.
Won't be for long.
Sorry, dude, but the government has standard levels of invasiveness of their security checks, and they escalate depending on the level of clearance requested. That deep of a background investigation does not happen unless you're getting access to classified material.
I refer you to this OPM document. A NAC is superficial, they just want to know you are who you say you are, your credentials check out, and you haven't done anything bad. Notice that as soon as credit/financials is searched for contractors, as it was for these people, you're now going for a clearance.
So at the very least they are doing the equivalent of a security investigation for access to classified information for people who have no access to classified information in the first place.
As I said, a waste of resources.
OTOH, it's not like we don't have enough investigators, not like we have a backlog on security checks, right? Oops, looks like we do, and in the last few years people have been raising national security concerns because we can't clear the people we really need to clear fast enough.
I know, let's investigate a bunch of janitors to make the problem worse!
Cheers!
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