The Trump Presidency 2.0

Locksteady said:
Yes.


Yes.

Here's the analogy:

A house plant is the clearance you get once the the gardeners finish cultivating it (completing your investigation). These particular house plants have a 5-year lifespan with regular care (you work a job that requires it), but will survive for only maybe 1 year due to neglect alone (you lose the job requiring it, but not due to a clearance-related violation).

If you start taking care of it again within that 1 year (find a new clearance-required job), it'll stop wilting and live out the remainder of those 5 years.

If, on the other hand, you lost the job because you set the plant on fire or let the neighbor Rabbit munch on it (violated the terms of your clearance), then the plant dies and you restart the whole process when you hire in for a new job that requires it, but it'll be much harder to get the gardeners to trust you with a house plant again.

EDIT: Clarified a point or two.
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Interesting. Thank you for the clarification.
 
amlove21 said:
Read the room, Al!

On the Politico story you might not be tracking- Politico got $8M of USAID money for subscriptions. Trump shut off USAID. Politico missed payroll for the first time ever.

Now, I have this issue with noticing. I noticed that the democrats are super mad about the USAID slush fund going away, and all the people calling for it are saying that USAID is politically motivated. Politico has been a stalwart anti-Trump voice that was (apparently) funded by an organization (USAID) that 97% of employees who donated politically did so to benefit left-wing causes. That noticing leads me to more questions.

The USAID scandal is going to be the scandal that blows the lid off the deep state, and we are just getting started.

(FWIW, Politico blamed the payroll issue on a "technical issue").
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Politico got $8m in total from the USG. They got a grand total of $44k from USAID. You can see all the outlays here: USAspending.gov
 
Salt USMC said:
The acquisition code for about 50% of the funding is for “Newspaper and Periodicals”. I’m guessing it’s probably for subscriptions or some kind of paid news service. The DoD used to do the same thing with STRATFOR, back when that existed.
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$4 million for subscriptions? To a site where I can read articles for free? Doesn't that seem like... a lot?

AFAIK,STRAFOR wasn't politically biased.
 
Marauder06 said:
$4 million for subscriptions? To a site where I can read articles for free? Doesn't that seem like... a lot?

AFAIK,STRAFOR wasn't politically biased.
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I’m seeing that Politico has a boutique feed called “PoliticoPro”, which apparently is $10k per year. Compare Pro Plus & Analysis Subscription Plans | POLITICO Pro

I guess it’s good if you don’t want to do your own analysis. But yeah, you could easily rack up $4M per year in costs if you spread enough of those around the government.

IIRC STRATFOR was around $2k per year. That’s why I made the comparison
 
The CIA/DIA do not have journalists on the payroll.

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Senator Kerry:

"I may risk being politically incorrect in saying so, but I simply don't see why any profession should be completely and permanently excluded from the possibility of working with CIA or DIA. The determining factors should be the situation, and then the willingness of the individual. If lives are at risk or a vital national interest is at risk, I don't see why any American patriot should be forbidden to cooperate with an American intelligence agency. As I understand Director Deutch's policy I support it."

Senator Glenn:

"To have a policy that says CIA will under no circumstances even think of talking to religious groups overseas or journalists, I think that would be a wrong policy, too. Because we're into a tough time for human intelligence, as I'm sure Director Deutch will comment upon in a few minutes. So I agree with the statement Senator Kerrey just made."
 
A few random political musings this fine morn.

One, recall a few days ago, maybe a week ago, we had posts about the 'secret vote' for Tulsi? Here is some insight. Not secret, but some deliberations in the committee's SCIF to, ah, influence the voting to get her vote to the floor:

Inside Sen. Tom Cotton's campaign to save Tulsi Gabbard's endangered DNI nomination

Two, the Gaza thing is the dumbest thing I have heard. I know he knows we don't want any part of that.

Three, security clearances. How is it every job I leave my badge access for that department gets revoked. But I can leave the military or intel community (or State or whatever) and just keep the clearance? C'mon, man.

Four, I am legit curious if NPR gets any USAID $. Do you know that Steve Inskeep and his his colleagues make almost a half million a freaking year??

Five, does anyone actually believe the intel community doesn't have journalists on retainer? General George Washington had journalists spying for him. I think next to prostitution it's the next most common source of HUMINT.

I am done. I'm grumpy this morning. I need more of Trump's Winning to make me happy...
 
Devildoc said:
Five, does anyone actually believe the intel community doesn't have journalists on retainer? General George Washington had journalists spying for him. I think next to prostitution it's the next most common source of HUMINT.

I am done. I'm grumpy this morning. I need more of Trump's Winning to make me happy...
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Many years ago, back when I was a young intel officer, I asked for the reasoning why there were any groups of people **at all** that were off limits to being recruited. If HUMINT is all about "placement and access," don't we want to recruit people who have... placement and access? Like, this ENTIRE LIST <whatever it was> of prohibited categories of people?

Reasonings:
1) protect people who AREN'T sources. "I couldn't POSSIBLY be a CIA spy, I'm a ***."
2) protect against double agents. Sources who are close to the target run the risk of "going native," and that's especially true of outsiders who earn their way into communities.
3) ...I had something else when I started typing but I've lost it; if I remember what it is later, I'll post it
 
Marauder06 said:
Many years ago, back when I was a young intel officer, I asked for the reasoning why there were any groups of people **at all** that were off limits to being recruited. If HUMINT is all about "placement and access," don't we want to recruit people who have... placement and access? Like, this ENTIRE LIST <whatever it was> of prohibited categories of people?

Reasonings:
1) protect people who AREN'T sources. "I couldn't POSSIBLY be a CIA spy, I'm a ***."
2) protect against double agents. Sources who are close to the target run the risk of "going native," and that's especially true of outsiders who earn their way into communities.
3) ...I had something else when I started typing but I've lost it; if I remember what it is later, I'll post it
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My first degree is poli sci, I had two grad level courses my senior year, in one of them I wrote a paper on the Belgian Congo crisis 1960-65. 50-something pages, banged out on an old 1st gen electronic typewriter.

Anyhoo, one of the books I used as a source was written by a guy who was a retired journalist, at the time with Reuters (I think), he talked about during his career in the 50s-70s the 4th estate was filled with guys used as paid and unpaid assets for various intelligence agencies, the unspoken thing was that a lot of people on all sides knew a lot of what was going on.

I wonder during the growth of the intel profession if the wall/chasm between the analysis side and the operational side siloed some of these professions.
 
Mortgage delinquency rates are up. It will be very interesting to see how all this government efficiency impacts jobs. Not just first order effects as federal employees lose jobs, but second order effects as things like grants, federal funding, social security payments, VA disability payments and other issues are impacted.
 
It won't be long before people start getting Arkancided over this dumpster fire...

-brake lines are going to start failing
-people committing suicide by shooting themselves in the back of the head
-heart attacks
-people committing suicide by shooting themselves in the front of the head
-strokes
-people committing suicide by shooting themselves in the side of the head
-self immolation
-people committing suicide by shooting themselves in the front, back, and side of the head
-self defenestration
-people committing suicide by shooting themselves in the head from multiple angles
-drug over doses
-people committing suicide by shooting themselves in the head multiple times
-bizarre public transportation accidents

Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living Together... MASSS HYSTERIA !!


Its coming bitches
Its coming
 
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