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Sex-crazed government workers could be leakers, Obama admin warns
The Daily Caller ^ | 7-10-2013

Posted on 07/10/2013 9:36:36 AM PDT by markomalley

Government workers with “a lust for money and sex” could be potential “insider threats” to the government, according to the Obama administration.

The Obama administration has quietly implemented the “Insider Threat Program” to force federal employees to report their co-workers if they identify signs that they might harm the government’s interests from within.

“Insiders who seek to harm U.S. security interests normally are either long-term plants or they are people who have been lured to betray their nation for ideological reasons, a lust for money or sex, or through blackmail,” warns the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive on its website, the federal government’s top counterintelligence agency.

The administration’s “Insider Threat Program” requires federal employees to report “indicators of insider threat behavior” among their own colleagues, in order to defend against potential spies and security leaks.

Obama created the program by executive order in October 2011, after soldier Bradley Manning leaked classified military information to Wikileaks. The program triggers investigations into federal employee conduct both in the office and online, where computer network monitoring systems patrol for “suspicious user behavior.”

The program requires federal workers to pay close attention to their colleagues’ lifestyle patterns — with odd working hours or unexplained travel indicators of suspicious activity.

But the federal government also identified “a lust for money or sex” as one of the primary motivating factors for espionage in its description of potential “insider threats” posted online prior to the public revelation Wednesday of Obama’s program.


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1 posted on 07/10/2013 9:36:36 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Well, hell! That means half of Congress could be leaking.


2 posted on 07/10/2013 9:38:23 AM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (The average American voter is an idiot. Which is how the Dems want it.)
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To: markomalley

The most sex crazed people out there are homosexual men, many who claim to have had sex with over 500 other men.


3 posted on 07/10/2013 9:38:23 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
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To: markomalley

I am completely at a loss anymore. This administration is certifiably insane.


4 posted on 07/10/2013 9:39:05 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: markomalley

So when are they picking up Bill Clinton?


5 posted on 07/10/2013 9:39:06 AM PDT by ReeseBN38416
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To: markomalley

“Government workers with “a lust for money and sex””

That would be Bill Clinton!


6 posted on 07/10/2013 9:39:22 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Support Free Republic!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

And who are subject to blackmail if they present themselves as something that they are not.


7 posted on 07/10/2013 9:39:43 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: markomalley

So.....neither Bill Clinton nor Jimmy Carter could work for the government today?


8 posted on 07/10/2013 9:39:55 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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9 posted on 07/10/2013 9:40:20 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: markomalley

Comrade Stalin Obama. Universally hated.


10 posted on 07/10/2013 9:40:20 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: rarestia

You got thatright.

It bisn’t over sexed workers out there that are insane, it’s queer sexed White House residents.


11 posted on 07/10/2013 9:41:24 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

Only half?


12 posted on 07/10/2013 9:42:23 AM PDT by wastedyears (I'm a gamer not because I choose to have no life, but because I choose to have many.)
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To: markomalley

I read this and think, “takes one to know one”. There’s a term in psychology - projection - where you expect others to do what your doing. This news is reveals more then they probably wanted to reveal.


13 posted on 07/10/2013 9:42:36 AM PDT by stansblugrassgrl (PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMUNITION!!! YEEEEEHAW!)
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Government workers with “a lust for money and sex” could be potential “insider threats” to the government, according to the Obama administration.

Barney Frank, you have a call on the white phone in the lobby.

14 posted on 07/10/2013 9:42:41 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("...Someone handed the keys to the Forum to the OPC and its sympathizers...")
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

The idea that people that can be blackmailed are a security risk has been an obsession for over 50 years but it’s never actually happened.

Simply being an overweening egotist has been a far more common thread in major security breeches but the whole investigative and background process doesn’t focus on this.


15 posted on 07/10/2013 9:43:53 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: markomalley
Government workers with “a lust for money and sex” could be potential “insider threats” to the government, according to the Obama administration.

BILL CLINTON being a case in point:

Clinton inevitably pursued his own political advantage at the expense of American interests and national security. Here is just one of many possible examples:

It is well documented that Clinton and the Democrats took illegal campaign money from groups and individuals tied directly to the Chinese People’s Republican Army. It is therefore not surprising that In January 1998 Clinton went against the advice of then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Pentagon experts by lifting long-standing restrictions against the export of American satellites to China for launch on Chinese rockets. Not only did he move control over such decisions from the more security-focused State Department to the Commerce Department, but he intervened in a Justice Department investigation of Loral Space & Communications, retroactively enabling Loral to sell critical missile technology to the Chinese. Interestingly enough, Clinton’s decision was made at the request of Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz, whose earlier $1.3 million campaign donation made him the single biggest contributor to the Democratic election effort.

The result, as stated eloquently by syndicated columnist Linda Bowles, was that “the Democrats got money from satellite companies and from Chinese communists; China got supercomputors, advanced production equipment and missile technology; Loral got its satellites launched at bargain basement prices . . . and the transfer of sensitive missile technology gave China [for the first time] the capability of depositing bombs on American cities.” Incidentally, Loral ultimately failed to benefit from this permanent injury to America’s security interests: in July 2003, the company filed for bankruptcy protection, and in order to raise cash was forced to sell its most profitable business – a fleet of communications satellites orbiting over North America.

On two occasions, Clinton used military action for the specific purpose of distracting the American public from the fallout of the Lewinsky affair:

• On August 20, three days after Clinton finally admitted publicly to the Lewinsky affair, the news media was poised to focus on that day’s grand jury testimony by Monica Lewinsky. That same morning, Clinton personally went on national television to gravely announce his bombing of a Sudanese “chemical weapons factory,” and a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. It was the first time most Americans ever heard the name of Osama bin Laden. The factory bombing in Sudan killed an innocent night watchman, but accomplished little else. It later was proven that the plant was making badly needed pharmaceuticals for people in that poverty-stricken part of the world, but no chemical weapons.

Several months later, the U.S. Center for Nonproliferation Studies, part of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, stated: "...the evidence indicates that the facility had no role whatsoever in chemical weapons development." Kroll Associates, one of the world's most reputable investigative firms, also confirmed that there was no link in any way between the plant and any terrorist organization. As for the Afghanistan bombing, it failed to do any damage at all to bin Laden or his organization. Clinton’s action was accurately characterized by George W. Bush when he said right after 9-11: "When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt.

Clinton’s pointless and murderous military actions did not make Americans safer that day, although they did destroy an innocent life, and for all the good they did certainly could have been delayed in any case. But they did succeed in diverting media attention from Lewinsky’s grand jury testimony for a 24-hour news cycle, which was the main point. So I guess, they weren’t a total loss.

•On December 16, 1998, on the eve of the scheduled House vote on his impeachment, Bill Clinton launched a surprise bombing attack on Baghdad. As justification for this exploit, he cited the urgent threat that Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction posed to America, and the need for immediate action. Almost immediately, the House Democrats held a caucus and emerged calling for a delay in the impeachment proceedings. House minority leader Dick Gephardt made a statement: "We obviously should pass a resolution by saying that we stand behind the troops. I would hope that we do not take up impeachment until the hostilities have completely ended."

Conveniently, a delay so near the end of the House term would have caused the vote to be taken up in the next session – when the newly elected House membership would be seated with more Democratic representation, thereby improving Clinton’s chances of dodging impeachment.

The Republicans did, in fact, agree to delay the hearings, but only for a day or two. Amazingly, Clinton ended the bombing raid after only 70 hours -- once it became clear that in spite of the brief delay, the vote would still be held in the current session.

Once the bombing stopped, Clinton touted the effectiveness and importance of the mission. As reported by ABC News : “We have inflicted significant damage on Saddam's weapons of mass destruction programs, on the command structures that direct and protect that capability, and on his military and security infrastructure,” he said. Defense secretary William Cohen echoed the point: “We estimate that Saddam's missile program has been set back by at least a year.”

Whether or not one buys Clinton’s assessment of that mission, it is difficult to believe that its timing was so critical that it required commencement virtually at the moment the House was scheduled to vote on the impeachment. I think the most reasonable conclusion is that Clinton cynically deployed US military assets and placed military personnel in harm’s way for purely political reasons.

Clinton’s reckless sexual behavior was a threat to American national security:

Clinton and his supporters have been very effective in persuading large numbers of Americans that the Lewinsky scandal was “only about sex.” But I see a bigger issue here, because Clinton is on record as saying that he would have done anything to keep knowledge of the Lewinsky affair from becoming public.

To me, that statement raises a very serious question: What if, instead of sending her recorded Lewinsky conversations to Ken Starr, Linda Tripp had instead secretly offered them for sale, say, to the Chinese government? Or to the Russians? Or even to agents of Saddam?

What kind of blackmail leverage would those tapes have provided to a foreign government in dealing with America on sensitive trade, security or military issues? One of the few things Clinton ever said that I believe is that he would have done anything to keep the Lewinsky affair secret. Given his demonstrated track record of selling out American interests for personal or political gain (and there are more examples that I could have cited here), how far would he have gone in compromising America’s real interests in order to protect his own neck when threatened with blackmail?

Pretty far, I believe. Equally distressing is the prospect Clinton might, in fact, have succumbed to foreign black mail on other occasions in order to hide different sexual episodes that ultimately did not become public. There is no way to know, of course, but I prefer presidents for whom such a scenario is not a plausible possibility.

16 posted on 07/10/2013 9:44:18 AM PDT by Maceman (Just say "NO" to tyranny.)
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To: markomalley

Isn’t Affirmative Action grand?

Fire all employees that gained their position solely through diversity quotas and replace them with compitent qualified people that deserve the position.


17 posted on 07/10/2013 9:44:19 AM PDT by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!)
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To: markomalley
It's ok when Bwaney Fwank does it. Forward Soviet!
18 posted on 07/10/2013 9:44:21 AM PDT by Xenophon450 (Profit tells the entrepreneur that the consumers approve of his ventures; loss, that they disapprove)
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To: markomalley
How long until this trickles down to the main stream media where they will be snitching on each and every one of them ?

19 posted on 07/10/2013 9:44:45 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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re: “Government workers with “a lust for money and sex” could be potential “insider threats” to the government, according to the Obama administration.”

So, that’s the ONLY motive someone might have if they leak damaging information regarding the Obama regime.


20 posted on 07/10/2013 9:45:41 AM PDT by rusty schucklefurd
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