Because we don't have the collective balls to do whats right.
Making an example of someone might cause someone else a lil pain...
Etc, etc...
Naval Intelligence Specialist Stationed At Bragg Investigated For Espionage.
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Because we don't have the collective balls to do whats right.
Making an example of someone might cause someone else a lil pain...
Etc, etc...
Brill
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Attached is a HFR (it was a first seen for me).
Nothing. It is impossible to determine a persons future actions. All the clearance process can do is make an estimate of future behavior based on past behavior.
The only thing we're doing wrong is not punishing people severely when they commit treasonous behavior. IMO we need to consider acts like these (and the whole Wikileaks thing) not as espionage, but as treason. And, we need to start punishing people publicly; say executions on the National Mall.
That said, the publicity of how much money there is to make is surely a contributing factor. In a lot of other countries the agent is lifted, given the choice of being run as a double or prosecuted- most choose being run. That way you get intel on the opposition's MO and codes and everything else plus the chance to fuck them up a bit. That, IMO, is a much more preferable option to hanging, drawing and quartering them.
It's a basic tenant of security that humans are the weakest link. You could have the world's most physically strong wall, the best alarms, the sharpest barb wire...but if you can get the guy/s who knows the code to the alarms on your side then you just have to walk in.
I don't know if that would have been possible in this case since details are scant.
It's a basic tenant of security that humans are the weakest link. You could have the world's most physically strong wall, the best alarms, the sharpest barb wire...but if you can get the guy/s who knows the code to the alarms on your side then you just have to walk in.
I don't know if that would have been possible in this case since details are scant.
Your weakest link in security will always be a human being.
Soundbyte stealing admin mofo! 
If one considers the number of spooks and other non-state sponsored cells of bad guys rounded up by the FBI in the past 36 months, it would seem they're doing an outstanding job.
Where others might see a wave of traitors, I see a much stronger and effective internal mechanism for filtering out the bad guys.
Nice job to those at work behind the scenes, even if they never say anything.
Maybe he thought the undercover guy was from Wikileaks!
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