Under the program, which is being implemented with little public attention, security investigations can be launched when government employees showing \u201cindicators of insider threat behavior\u201d are reported by co-workers, according to previously undisclosed administration documents obtained by McClatchy. Investigations also can be triggered when \u201csuspicious user behavior\u201d is detected by computer network monitoring and reported to \u201cinsider threat personnel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Federal employees and contractors are asked to pay particular attention to the lifestyles, attitudes and behaviors \u2013 like financial troubles, odd working hours or unexplained travel \u2013 of co-workers as a way to predict whether they might do \u201charm to the United States.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Potential for abuse, you think?<\/p>\n
On the other hand, if there’s a toll-free number, it’d be a monkey-wrencher’s dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Its’ been a mainstay of totalitarian life, from Lenin and Stalin through Orwell to today’s North Korea; “If you see something, say something – to the komissar!” And now it’s coming to America\u00a0(with emphasis added): Under the program, which is being implemented with little public attention, security investigations can be launched when government employees showing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,64,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-president-obama","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37201,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37197\/revisions\/37201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}