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“Insider Threat Program”: How the White House is keeping federal workers quiet (YIKES!)
Hot Air ^ | June 21,2013

Posted on 06/21/2013 6:41:30 AM PDT by SE Mom

President Barack Obama’s unprecedented initiative, known as the Insider Threat Program, is sweeping in its reach. It has received scant public attention even though it extends beyond the U.S. national security bureaucracies to most federal departments and agencies nationwide, including the Peace Corps, the Social Security Administration and the Education and Agriculture departments. It emphasizes leaks of classified material, but catchall definitions of “insider threat” give agencies latitude to pursue and penalize a range of other conduct.

Government documents reviewed by McClatchy illustrate how some agencies are using that latitude to pursue unauthorized disclosures of any information, not just classified material. They also show how millions of federal employees and contractors must watch for “high-risk persons or behaviors” among co-workers and could face penalties, including criminal charges, for failing to report them. Leaks to the media are equated with espionage.

“Hammer this fact home . . . leaking is tantamount to aiding the enemies of the United States,” says a June 1, 2012, Defense Department strategy for the program that was obtained by McClatchy.

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; coverup; fastandfurious; impeachnow; insiderthreatprogram; irs; itp; tyranny; whistleblower
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To: TADSLOS

There must be some means or person who can get the straight/correct skinny on this. From what you mention it seems preposterous that after serving the time a person is not free to exercise the rights of ordinary citizens.


81 posted on 06/21/2013 10:38:03 AM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: butterdezillion

Have you been following the Beck/Taize whistleblower Possible trip to NY state Capitol. AG would handle fraud cases. Documentation possibly on file while he was a student in NYC. Don’t know if naturalization papers would be there!


82 posted on 06/21/2013 11:04:06 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then!)
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To: noinfringers2
The referenced Article 2 of the UCMJ and AR 27-10 have been in place long before I showed up on the scene. However, in all of my 40+ years serving in and in support of the military, I can't recall one instance where the DoD or the Army ever made an official blanket reminder to the retired military to "behave themselves, or else".

I have no doubt that it is a veiled threat by Obamites embedded in the DoD specifically targeted to those retirees who continue to work in a supporting role for the federal government, either as a civil servant or a contractor.

83 posted on 06/21/2013 11:06:17 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: hoosiermama

No, I’ve not heard anything about it. Glenn Beck? Is Taize Orly?


84 posted on 06/21/2013 12:11:49 PM PDT by butterdezillion (,)
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To: butterdezillion

He’s to both. He’s been teasing a big announcement. Orly said she met a whistleblower at the IRS protest in DC Beck was one of the speakers. Will ping you to latest thread


85 posted on 06/21/2013 12:19:06 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then!)
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To: SE Mom
Who would think an 80's artist song would prescint. We've gone from a "It's none of your business..." culture to "I wonder whose watching me now" in one generation.

The Obama administration theme song:

Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me

86 posted on 06/21/2013 12:47:43 PM PDT by 444Flyer (How long Oh LORD?)
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To: 444Flyer

prescint=prescient


87 posted on 06/21/2013 12:48:56 PM PDT by 444Flyer (How long Oh LORD?)
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To: SE Mom

It is what the people want. They said so, via their votes, in two separate elections, four years apart. Now that they are getting what they voted for, they are crying.
Cry, cry baby cry.


88 posted on 06/21/2013 12:53:08 PM PDT by sport
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To: drpix
Closer to the regime's Stalinist inspiration:

This has to be the most paranoid administration in the history of our nation.

89 posted on 06/21/2013 12:54:34 PM PDT by 444Flyer (How long Oh LORD?)
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To: Old Yeller
Nope. Was thinking my eyes had been doctored. Want to doctor my eyes? And don't tell me I left my eyes open for too long.
90 posted on 06/21/2013 12:55:09 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Venturer
‘I know it is considered bad taste to bring up Hitler and his Nazi’s’

Discussing Hitler and the Nazi’s is not bad taste. Romantizing them or saying stuff like, The Jews didn’t have it too bad, is.

91 posted on 06/21/2013 1:15:01 PM PDT by Delta Dawn
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To: TangoLimaSierra
It may be time to march on DC and tell everyone to go home.

It's way past time. We either cowboy up and start holding some massive civil disobedience rallies, or we'll be left with one final option to this tyranny.

92 posted on 06/21/2013 1:57:17 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: SE Mom

“You’ve got to understand that they are trying to find the likes of me,” stated my source. Pretty soon, no one is going to be talking to anybody, especially in the alternative media, even about the damn weather. They won’t risk it, and I’m not just talking about a risk to their careers, either. There has been a systematic method of intimidation with some known and even “approved” media contacts, not just against them, but against their families,” he emphasized.

“The truth is that it was not limited to AP, and not limited to just number identification and call duration, but was an extensive and active wiretapping operation that included every reporter’s telephone conversations, landline and cell, text messages from their personal and business cellular telephones and other electronic devices. The primary focus is on the press gallery, where everything was monitored in real time.”

“Not only were the communications of reporters compromised, so were the private communications of congressmen and their aides. Listen to what I am saying,” he stressed, “the operation was much larger than anyone can imagine. Recordings, actual voice recordings, were turned over to the Obama administration, along with transcripts of texts, other communications and contacts.”

“NSA assets were used, with the NSA acting as the collection agency for their intermediate client, the DHS. Then, at the highest levels of DHS, they sifted through the information collected. But the ultimate client or recipient of the information was the Obama White House. I don’t know if other agencies were involved in sorting through the material, but DHS, and this was limited to the highest of levels at DHS under the personal direction of Janet Napolitano, provided volumes of data directly to the Obama administration. One person inside the administration I know received the data was Valerie Jarrett,” he stated.
“The other part of the lie is that this operation lasted only two months. That’s a lie. It went on well into late last year, was halted shortly after the election, but then picked back up sometime in January,” he said. Something happened in January where there appeared to be another active wiretapping operation started, but this one appeared to be more focused, or more limited in scope. Maybe, and I’m just guessing here based on some of the things I heard, that the Obama people had narrowed their interests based on the fruits of the previous operation.”

Now the ‘Holder hammer’ is coming down on anyone who opens their mouth, or previously leaked any information that could have been or be detrimental to Obama. I can tell you that Valerie Jarrett is working, out of the White House, with DHS and other agencies to co-ordinate their efforts with Justice,” the latter a reference to the Eric Holder Justice Department. “At the same time, on the media side, there is a ‘plumbers team’ headed out of Chicago, with a long reach to the New York and Washington press correspondents. So they are not only going after those on the inside, but the journalists from the other side.”...
Read more: http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/56029


93 posted on 06/21/2013 2:26:22 PM PDT by bronxville (Margaret Sanger - “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population,Â)
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To: bronxville

The way things are going it’ll soon be mandatory for kids to spy on their parents.


94 posted on 06/21/2013 2:29:26 PM PDT by bronxville (Margaret Sanger - “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population,Â)
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To: boxlunch

I have watched part of that on Netflix. However, it lacks cc and combined w/the accents, I found it difficult to follow, and so stopped before watching the entire series.

But, yes: it is chillingly current.


95 posted on 06/21/2013 2:38:27 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: Whenifhow

Thanx for the YouTube link.

I like dystopian film and only vaguely recall this one.


96 posted on 06/21/2013 2:39:46 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: SE Mom

Federal workers owe $3.5 billion in back taxes

Nearly 312,000 federal workers and retirees owed more than $3.5 billion in back taxes as of Sept. 30, 2011, the agency said. The year before, about 279,000 workers and retirees owed $3.4 billion.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2995046/posts

as long is you think right, you’re ok


97 posted on 06/21/2013 2:43:30 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: reformedliberal

I like dystopian film and only vaguely recall this one.
__________
Here’s more about it

Amerika the tv series is now on you tube.

The most interesting thing was the undercurrent theme that the soviets were surprised that no one in America fought back. And it was stated by Devin in part 4 (34:15 – 36:00 min) of the series:

In Video 6 a soviet general mentioned that “totalitarianism needs no armies – all it needs is the media, the ability to dispense privilege and a weak and divided people helps” which is probably simplistic, but gets the point across about how important propaganda really is.
At 31:30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mf3pYyk5PY

In video 11, Congress is in session and then soviets come in.

Amerika the trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og4UHIACEN0


98 posted on 06/21/2013 2:50:27 PM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: SE Mom

“Transparent” means you can’t see it. :)


99 posted on 06/21/2013 3:05:12 PM PDT by Tzimisce (The American Revolution began when the British attempted to disarm the Colonists.)
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To: reformedliberal

Amerika Prologue – 2 pages
http://www.thelibertyman.com/downloads/AmerikaPrologue.pdf


100 posted on 06/21/2013 3:10:45 PM PDT by Whenifhow
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