McClatchy Uncovers Obama's 'Insider Threat Program' - The Nation

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

EEK!! Watch out for people who work at the Peace Corps or the Departments of Education or Agriculture or have gotten divorces!!

http://www.thenation.com/blog/174950/mcclatchy-uncovers-obamas-insider-threat-program

President Barack Obama’s unprecedented initiative, known as the Insider Threat Program, is sweeping in its reach. It has received scant public attention even though it extends beyond the U.S. national security bureaucracies to most federal departments and agencies nationwide, including the Peace Corps, the Social Security Administration and the Education and Agriculture departments. It emphasizes leaks of classified material, but catchall definitions of “insider threat” give agencies latitude to pursue and penalize a range of other conduct.

Government documents reviewed by McClatchy illustrate how some agencies are using that latitude to pursue unauthorized disclosures of any information, not just classified material. They also show how millions of federal employees and contractors must watch for “high-risk persons or behaviors” among co-workers and could face penalties, including criminal charges, for failing to report them. Leaks to the media are equated with espionage.

“Hammer this fact home … leaking is tantamount to aiding the enemies of the United States,” says a June 1, 2012, Defense Department strategy for the program that was obtained by McClatchy.

The Obama administration is expected to hasten the program’s implementation as the government grapples with the fallout from the leaks of top secret documents by Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who revealed the agency’s secret telephone data collection program. The case is only the latest in a series of what the government condemns as betrayals by “trusted insiders” who have harmed national security.

Here's the McClatchy article headed: Experts: Obama’s plan to predict future leakers unproven, unlikely to work

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/07/09/196211/linchpin-for-obamas-plan-to-predict.html

[GoneFishin]

1. I don't think this is about a broad policy. There are agencies that are extremely low risk for

leaking terror related information. My sense is that they are worried about a particular leak, and this is just a haystack to hide that needle in.

[GeorgeGist]

3. I think you're wrong.

Executive order 13857.

Sec. 6.1. There is established an interagency Insider Threat Task Force that shall develop a Government-wide program (insider threat program) for deterring, detecting, and mitigating insider threats, including the safeguarding of classified information from exploitation, compromise, or other unauthorized disclosure, taking into account risk levels, as well as the distinct needs, missions, and systems of individual agencies. This program shall include development of policies, objectives, and priorities for establishing and integrating security, counterintelligence, user audits and monitoring, and other safeguarding capabilities and practices within agencies.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/10/07/executive-order-13587-structural-reforms-improve-security-classified-net

[GoneFishin]

5. That's nice. My point still stands.

[msongs]

2. more hope and change and transparency from the developers of the new police state nt

[Luminous Animal]

4. Kick.