Posted by
glen ropella on
Nov 27, 2013; 10:51pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/RE-HPSCI-Seeks-a-Continuous-Evaluationa-of-Security-Cleared-Employees-tp7584392p7584393.html
On 11/27/2013 02:17 PM,
[hidden email] wrote:
> Hmm. That sounds like something a criminal would say!
> Does that answer your question? ;-)
Ha! Yes, of course. If I were a criminal, I'd be the lazy sort, say
that walks along a row of parked cars trying every handle and only
stealing the ones that had the keys in the visor.
> Whatever you might think about the leaked NSA programs, you've got to at
> least admit that they weren't being timid. And congressional leaders
> in-the-know must have realized the potential blowback..
Yeah, that's a good point. Living inside a black operation like the NSA
does allow a freedom of thought that is less available in more
transparent (publicly traded) or more constrained (small/private)
organizations. But it also diffuses accountability. If we had some
surveillance tapes of the process so that we could identify the worker
bees who executed the various NSA schemes, then get them fired and
thrown in jail for doing that, I would guess future execution on such
ideas would be dampened. We do that in the more transparent parts of
the military, already. Only rarely is a member of the "brass" punished
for signing off on some bad behavior. It's usually the soldier(s) who
execute the plan that are held accountable.
The continuous evaluation/monitoring seems to further encourage a
multiple personality split in the person working in such an
organization. First, as long as the organization "buys off" on whatever
action, no matter how repugnant it may be in a normal context, then it's
probably OK to do it. Hence, those invisible soldiers can act in ways
we (and perhaps even they) would consider reprehensible were they out
here in the normal world. And they can do it with a clear conscience
because the organization signed off on it. But second, "vetting" the
soldiers regarding financial, addiction, psychological problems with a
continuous eval/monitoring program selects for people who are squeaky
clean in their personal lives. The combination seems to optimize for
multiple personality disorder. Someone who is able to completely
fracture their self into "work" and "home", creating the ultimate "just
following orders" excuses.
All I can say is that I hope the health insurance plans for cleared
employees includes full support for mental illness.
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⇒⇐ glen
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