Top-Secret World Loses Blogger(CIA Contractor Is Fired When Internal Post Crosses the Line)

Washington Post ^ | Friday, July 21, 2006 | Dana Priest

[VRWCtaz]

Your response has told me plenty. A reporter who who doesn't get it that we are at war and her dictionary is missing the page with "traitor" on it.

[ASA Vet]

Heres the most prestigious new media award.

[Sam Hill]

"No room for anyone with an agenda other than gathering information to use in the defense of our nation."

To be accurate, she was a software contractor.

She had nothing to do with the real work of the agency, and may have never even set foot inside of the Langley.

[ASA Vet]

I'm using a government computer, so the .00000000174 stone difference is close enough.

[VRWCtaz]

You are correct, Sam. I was responding to a post about about "leftists" and we were heading off on a tangent.

[VRWCtaz]

That reminds me of something I've always wondered about: Why is it that the concept of "close enough for government work" applies to just about everything except my tax return?

[VRWCtaz]

Thanks. Just the names of the links says volumes.

[MissionMan]

The key to this issue is that she was hired to test SW not write on a blog during work hours. Mischarging is a big no-no, especially with BAE (I know because I work for them also)

As tempting as it is to write on a blog and dialogue on food or torture -- we are paid to write SW and test SW -- anything else is cheating the government. So it is seen as misuse of a computer and we have all ALREADY signed ethics papers that say we will not do this.

As to need-to-know and releasing secrets into the ether -- this was a classified network -- the secrets are all still safe there.