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WASHINGTON — In an initiative aimed at rooting out future leakers and other security violators, President Barack Obama has ordered federal employees to report suspicious actions of their colleagues based on behavioral profiling techniques that are not scientifically proven to work, according to experts and government documents.
The techniques are a key pillar of the Insider Threat Program, an unprecedented government-wide crackdown under which millions of federal bureaucrats and contractors must watch out for “high-risk persons or behaviors” among co-workers. Those who fail to report them could face penalties, including criminal charges.
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by neo96
Didn't Obama pass some sort of legislation protecting whistle-blowers?
Is it "whistle-blowers" if they tell on business and "leakers" when they tell on government?
I really am unclear on the distinction.
Didn't Obama pass some sort of legislation protecting whistle-blowers?
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(h) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and
appropriate protections for privacy and civil liberties, and subject to the
availability of appropriations.
(i) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit,
substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party
against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers,
employees, or agents, or any other person.
Originally posted by Ex_CT2
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by neo96
Didn't Obama pass some sort of legislation protecting whistle-blowers?
Is it "whistle-blowers" if they tell on business and "leakers" when they tell on government?
I really am unclear on the distinction.
No, no. You got it right. He passed legislation to protect whistleblowers, and then started prosecuting them under the 1917 Espionage Act. A full 7 of the 10 prosecutions by all presidents under that Act have been by Obama.
Draw your own conclusions....
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by neo96
reply to post by Ex_CT2
A) So basically, Obama is a flaming hypocrite.
B) Either that or he is schitzophrenic.
C) Or is it just that he wants the dirt on everyone BUT himself.
(the answer is D) All Of The Above )
Originally posted by Ex_CT2
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by neo96
Didn't Obama pass some sort of legislation protecting whistle-blowers?
Is it "whistle-blowers" if they tell on business and "leakers" when they tell on government?
I really am unclear on the distinction.
No, no. You got it right. He passed legislation to protect whistleblowers, and then started prosecuting them under the 1917 Espionage Act. A full 7 of the 10 prosecutions by all presidents under that Act have been by Obama.
Draw your own conclusions....
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by neo96
reply to post by Ex_CT2
A) So basically, Obama is a flaming hypocrite.
B) Either that or he is schitzophrenic.
C) Or is it just that he wants the dirt on everyone BUT himself.
(the answer is D) All Of The Above )
WASHINGTON — In an initiative aimed at rooting out future leakers and other security violators, President Barack Obama has ordered federal employees to report suspicious actions of their colleagues based on behavioral profiling techniques that are not scientifically proven to work, according to experts and government documents.
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by neo96
reply to post by Ex_CT2
A) So basically, Obama is a flaming hypocrite.
B) Either that or he is schitzophrenic.
C) Or is it just that he wants the dirt on everyone BUT himself.
(the answer is D) All Of The Above )
It’s 1981, New York City. Barack Obama is residing two blocks away from Weather Underground leader William Ayers. We know very little about Obama’s life in NYC during that period; supposedly he transferred from Occidental College and completed undergraduate studies at Columbia University. Obama’s academic records and, in fact, the records of his life from those years in New York are lost. [See references at end.]
At Occidental, Obama belonged to Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a radical socialist organization of which the Weather Underground was an off-shoot. Did Obama continue his SDS membership at Columbia? (I read recently that Columbia was a major SDS center.)
In 1981, former Weather Underground members along with a few former Black Panthers are arrested in association with the robbery of a Brinks armored truck 20 miles north of Manhattan. A guard is killed and the driver is wounded. $1.6 million is recovered.
One of the Weather Underground members arrested for the Brinks crime is Kathy Boudin. She is sentenced to 20 years-to-life. Boudin leaves behind a child, Chesa Boudin, who ends up being raised by Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn while her mother lives in prison.
One of the former Black Panthers arrested in connection with the Brinks robbery is Nathaniel Burns, a member of the Black Liberation Army. Burns is also known as Sekou Odinga. Burns/Odinga is sentenced to 25 years-to-life for attempted murder of a police officer. (ODINGA, sound familiar?)
Obama and Ayers later end up collaborating on several controversial projects in Chicago. They work together to grant funds to Rashid Khalidi, Trinity United Church of Christ, and ACORN, among other “worthy” recipients. Ayers and Dohrn host a soirée at their home to launch young Barack’s political career. (But we’re now to believe that Barack did not know that Ayers and Dohrn created and starred in the Weather Underground, for which they were tried as criminals.)
As we often see in Obama’s history, here again there are a few degrees of separation that cause curious and intelligent people to ask: Is this just another set of odd coincidences?
I believe that Obama knew Ayers in New York City, and that he’s hiding the association with Ayers, among others, in refusing to provide information about his life there.
Obviously Obama’s campaign is lying (and insulting our intelligence) when it audaciously claims that Obama knew nothing of Ayers’ affiliation with the Weather Underground, up until…when?..(I must have missed that part of Axelrod’s explanation. When does he claim that Obama learned about Ayer’s lifelong project, the WU?)
In any event, accepting Axelrod’s explanation would require us to conclude that Obama is stupid. Really stupid, which sort of flies in the face of the magna cum laude thing from Harvard, right?
Everyone knows that the REAL questions are:
When did Obama first learn about Ayers? When did he first meet Ayers? What were his “off-campus” activities in New York? Perhaps if Obama were open about his life, and did not go to such extreme lengths to cover up fundamental facts of his existence, we would not be forced to outline such events as the 1981 Brinks robbery.
1981, New York City: Just a Bizarre Coincidence?