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In reply to the discussion: AP source: DHS employee behind racist website [View all]grantcart
(53,061 posts)32. This is low level employee and not a LEO officer or agent.
The bar for employees is about the same as normal employment.
Officers or agents have extensive background checks. Their credit is checked. They go to 4 month academies where they are provoked to see if they have emotional triggers or racial biases.
After they finish the academy they are on extended probation where anything like this would be used to get rid of them.
After that they are scrutinized regularly by internal affairs, but they are mostly looking for people that would be susceptible to bribes or intimidation from the cartel.
Nevertheless even at the agent and officer level there are cases of bad agents/officers, but it is very rare.
They are always looking out for misbehavior.
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The article shows that the Southern Poverty Law Center did the first reporting on this, not the NSA.
xocet
Aug 2013
#15
Good question. I'm guessing because no right wing organizations have complained about him.
forestpath
Aug 2013
#13
"The DHS official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized"
Sunlei
Aug 2013
#14
He'll get fired unless he can put up an airtight defense that the site is a joke/satire, etc.
Blue_Tires
Aug 2013
#23