Wandersmann wrote on Jun 22^nd, 2017 at 5:04pm:

I guess he couldn't find anyone and he still can't handle the truth (DODI 5210.91.)

Go back under your rock asswipe.  You're only showing how ignorant you are every time you post something.

Wandersmann wrote on Jun 22^nd, 2017 at 5:04pm:


Maybe someone should address him "pa russkiiy" as he appears to  know some Russian?   

John M. wrote on Jun 22^nd, 2017 at 3:19pm:


However, the mentality behind the policy dates back to the National Security Act of 1947, fourteen years before Obama was born!  IC abuses have proliferated since that Act, irrespective of whatever political party or President is in power!

xenonman wrote on Jun 24^th, 2017 at 3:19am:


I don't think so Xenonman.  I think he knows how to use Google Translate.   

Wandersmann wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2017 at 2:23pm:


Very likely!   However, I think Quickfix is hardly unique in that regard.  I suspect that the bulk of IC employees would have great difficulties were they ever compelled to seek "real" jobs.  

The combined protective mantle of possessing a security clearance and being "polygraph ready" is indeed a powerful cloak for the masking of incompetence.

quickfix wrote on Jun 22^nd, 2017 at 9:39pm:

 
You are correct Quickfix.  No arguing that there is no right to a security clearance.   People of honor and integrity, however, like our Founding Fathers, lived by a code that no one dared impune another man's honor and reputation without absolute proof of dishonorable action.  This code is why men fought duels to the death if anyone falsely accused them of dishonorable action.  That fact that you don't understand that concept is clear proof that you have no honor or integrity yourself.   Try to get the moral courage to examine yourself and admit at least to yourself, if to no one else, that you are just exploiting an evil system for personal gain. 

I do not object to current public sector use of the polygraph because I think the applicant is being abused. I'm not applying for a job with the NSA or the CIA, and none of my friends and relatives are either. Unfair treatment of applicants is a very serious civil rights problem, but it is different from the problem that terrifies me. 

I object to out government's inordinate reliance on the polygraph because it doesn't work! There is abundant evidence to prove that the lie detector allows the CIA and other TLAs to hire spies, moles, and traitors, and no evidence at all to suggest that it does anything keep the people of America any safer than hiring a witch doctor to do the anti-spy dance. 

From the applicants' point of view, the problem of being treated unfairly is self correcting: Each intelligent mature applicant -- once he recovers from the shock of finding his patriotism deemed worthless -- declines to participate, and goes on to find rewarding employment elsewhere. 

However, from the government's point of view, the problem of applicants being treated unfairly is self-reinforcing: as the applicant pool is reduced to only the stupid or gullible, government agencies fill up with employees who think there's nothing wrong with their hiring process. 

If there's one thing that Aunty loathes and despises more than a citizen who would purchase himself a comfortable government indenture by giving up his essential liberty, it is a coward who would purchase himself a comfortable government indenture by giving up my essential liberty.