MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Education Dept, Peace Corps gear up to fight leaks
By PeraclesPlease on Sun, 06/23/2013 - 2:14pm |Yep, sure you were worried about those who would do us harm infiltrating the Department of Education
The Department of Education, meanwhile, informs employees that co-workers going through “certain life experiences . . . might turn a trusted user into an insider threat.” Those experiences, the department says in a computer training manual, include “stress, divorce, financial problems” or “frustrations with co-workers or the organization.”
...The Peace Corps, which is in the midst of implementing its program, “takes very seriously the obligation to protect sensitive information,” said an email from a Peace Corps official who insisted on anonymity but gave no reason for doing so.
In case any Oceanographic or Agriculture issues too sensitive? We've got your back.
An online tutorial titled “Treason 101” teaches Department of Agriculture and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employees to recognize the psychological profile of spies.
The Bush administration allegedly tried to silence two former government climate change experts from speaking publicly on the dangers of global warming. More recently, the FDA justified the monitoring of the personal email of its scientists and doctors as a way to detect leaks of unclassified information.
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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/06/20/194513/obamas-crackdown-views-leaks-as.html#.Ucc5LD-XvFg
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