Posted on 12/23/2022 8:01:40 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
While it was dabbling with disinformation offices and censorship projects, the Homeland Security Department failed to follow its most basic safety procedures and terminate the security credentials for thousands of its ex-employees, its internal watchdog disclosed in a stinging report Thursday that rebuked years of inaction.
The revelation from the DHS inspector general means that the federal agency charged with protecting America from cyber and terrorist attacks left its own system vulnerable to security breaches by failing to terminate personal identity verification (PIV) card access or withdraw security clearances.
"There is a risk that individuals who no longer require access to systems and facilities could circumvent controls and enter DHS buildings and controlled areas," the watchdog warned.
You can read the full report here:
The glaring failures violated federal regulations and department policies and did not markedly improve even after the agency was warned in 2018 about the problems, the inspector general reported.
"DHS has not prioritized ensuring that PIV cards are terminated when individuals no longer require access," the report said.
"We determined that, in thousands of cases, DHS did not promptly revoke PIV card access privileges or destroy PIV cards of individuals who separated from the Department.
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
Card or not....why would they work at all? Once you out you name and code would be purged from the database, disallowing access. At least it should be.
Looks like the DHS is a colossal waste of taxpayer money. Headed by agenda-driven incompetents, their main task seems to be not to protect the U.S., but to facilitate illegal criminal invaders and other threats to our security. The DHS should be eliminated. Either do it right, or go home.
Example. How does Hillary Clinton still have a top national security pass??
“... may not have revoked ...”
Would not the computer have the status?
“How does Hillary Clinton still have a top national security pass??”
How is she still walking free????
To put it more generically, and this applies to all government agencies, Federal, State and Local:
...Their main task seems to be not to protect the U.S./State/City, but to implement the political agendas of their “elected” overlords.
I’m currently reading the Antifederalist Papers written by Ralph Ketchum.
“All human authority, however organized, must have confined limits, or insolence and oppression will prove the offspring of its grandeur, and the difficulty or rather impossibility of escape prevents resistance.”
—George Clinton, Robert Yates, Samuel Bryan
“I acknowledge, also, the new form of government may effectually prevent it. Yet there is another thing it will as effectually do- -it will oppress and ruin the people.”
—Patrick Henry
Department of Insecurity: Feds failed to collect thousands of security cards from ex-employeesWait! Don't tell me. They're all now working in concert at Twitter, Social Media, and Google to destroy the country (not joking).
My ID said “Property of the US Government” on the back.
Charge them with theft if they don’t turn in their IDs.
Mayorkas should be in prison for a long time.
Would not the computer have the status?Sure it does. Just like the computer for Tesla's FSD.
#7 that is a funny photo but that machine on the track is about to lift the track up and over to align the track.
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