If this isn’t aggravating enough, how about those morons like Marjorie Taylor Greene and others of her ilk who want to paint this clown as some sort of hero? Rather like the über-libertarians who claim that the traitor Snowden did a good thing.
I love reading your stuff, even if I haven't commented, until now. I just have a couple of points that stuck out to me.
Point I
Forget who it was, or how old he was, I want to know how he was able to just walk documents out of a secure area, off of a government facility and to his house so that he can photograph them, and then return those documents back to the secure area inside of a government facility without them being missed or found in his possession.
Point II
I think that age is and should be a factor in security determining clearances, and it has to do with the final step of rational maturity in the brain isn't complete until roughly the age of 28. It's that very "edge" the military likes in its personnel, because it that's the age where the ability to reason and rationalize is still being formed. This is also the same age bracket that the military has the most behavioral problems with. Prisons, too.
This is not unknown to the Department of Defense and all the various branches. It's not unknown to the Department of Justice, either.
Also, the lack of criminal history is meaningless for someone 18-21. Most juvenile criminal activity goes unreported or gets expunged by the court at when they become an adult.
I'm not saying you don't grant security clearances to people under 28 years old, but maybe they should be monitored closer and audited more often.
I did ask those questions. Frankly, there’s no good answer, unfortunately. Ultimately, a message needs to be sent. A strong one. Letting Manning out of prison early sent the very wrong message, TBH. These people need to serve hard time for the entirety of their sentence. The pentagon has already been warning service members about these channels like Discord and others, but I don’t see how they can control what people do outside work.
Maybe instead of stupid annual training that people sleep through, develop actual certification exams that are challenging and require critical thinking about disclosures, and if the individual doesn’t pass, no access.
But ultimately, I don’t think you’re going to stop people from doing what they want. You have to catch them and punish them so subsequent imbeciles think twice. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Mind you, I have no idea what he specifically leaked: I did not look closely *on purpose*, because those are the rules. From the brief glimpse I saw in news reports, I'm guessing he brought his smartphone into the SCIF, and snapped away.
I know some SCIFs have Phone detectors, and some don't. Guessing his SCIF didn't. . . .
If this isn’t aggravating enough, how about those morons like Marjorie Taylor Greene and others of her ilk who want to paint this clown as some sort of hero? Rather like the über-libertarians who claim that the traitor Snowden did a good thing.
I love reading your stuff, even if I haven't commented, until now. I just have a couple of points that stuck out to me.
Point I
Forget who it was, or how old he was, I want to know how he was able to just walk documents out of a secure area, off of a government facility and to his house so that he can photograph them, and then return those documents back to the secure area inside of a government facility without them being missed or found in his possession.
Point II
I think that age is and should be a factor in security determining clearances, and it has to do with the final step of rational maturity in the brain isn't complete until roughly the age of 28. It's that very "edge" the military likes in its personnel, because it that's the age where the ability to reason and rationalize is still being formed. This is also the same age bracket that the military has the most behavioral problems with. Prisons, too.
This is not unknown to the Department of Defense and all the various branches. It's not unknown to the Department of Justice, either.
Also, the lack of criminal history is meaningless for someone 18-21. Most juvenile criminal activity goes unreported or gets expunged by the court at when they become an adult.
I'm not saying you don't grant security clearances to people under 28 years old, but maybe they should be monitored closer and audited more often.
I did ask those questions. Frankly, there’s no good answer, unfortunately. Ultimately, a message needs to be sent. A strong one. Letting Manning out of prison early sent the very wrong message, TBH. These people need to serve hard time for the entirety of their sentence. The pentagon has already been warning service members about these channels like Discord and others, but I don’t see how they can control what people do outside work.
Maybe instead of stupid annual training that people sleep through, develop actual certification exams that are challenging and require critical thinking about disclosures, and if the individual doesn’t pass, no access.
But ultimately, I don’t think you’re going to stop people from doing what they want. You have to catch them and punish them so subsequent imbeciles think twice. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Mind you, I have no idea what he specifically leaked: I did not look closely *on purpose*, because those are the rules. From the brief glimpse I saw in news reports, I'm guessing he brought his smartphone into the SCIF, and snapped away.
I know some SCIFs have Phone detectors, and some don't. Guessing his SCIF didn't. . . .