We could make this up but we don't have to so we won't.
On a day that Barack Obama proselytized on the need for smarter, more innovative government we learn that the President is already right on top of it. Government wide he has launched a report on your co-worker tattletale program.
Federal employees had better watch their p's and q's,Security investigations can be launched when government employees showing “indicators of insider threat behavior” are reported by co-workers, according to previously undisclosed administration documents obtained by McClatchy. Investigations also can be triggered when “suspicious user behavior” is detected by computer network monitoring and reported to “insider threat personnel.”
Federal employees and contractors are asked to pay particular attention to the lifestyles, attitudes and behaviors – like financial troubles, odd working hours or unexplained travel – of co-workers as a way to predict whether they might do “harm to the United States.”Discretion is not an option.
The techniques are a key pillar of the Insider Threat Program, an unprecedented government-wide crackdown under which millions of federal bureaucrats and contractors must watch out for “high-risk persons or behaviors” among co-workers. Those who fail to report them could face penalties, including criminal charges.Go into debt to pay for your kid's education, work late or through the weekends, or try to sneak away for a vacation without letting the boss know the destination, you are obviously the next Bradley Manning or Edward Snowden. Barack Obama wants you targeted and investigated. That's smart, innovative government, particularly when you consider the the thousands of security personnel Obama will get to hire to investigate and track down all the leads on the next would-be espionage plot. Go to it brother Barack.
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