Wow, the SpyTalk piece is quite disheartening. It seems well within the realm of probability that persons drawn to clandestine work might not all be qualified.....I mean you want to lie and deceive for a living. Weeding out the nut jobs seems like that would be top of list.....no?
IMHO, if we have learned anything since this country elec…
Wow, the SpyTalk piece is quite disheartening. It seems well within the realm of probability that persons drawn to clandestine work might not all be qualified.....I mean you want to lie and deceive for a living. Weeding out the nut jobs seems like that would be top of list.....no?
IMHO, if we have learned anything since this country elected Trump, we have learned that there are A LOT of people, and I mean a whole lot, who are simply not willing to live among various ethnicities, orientations, races, genders and religious faiths.
It's weird to me because my friend when I was younger, my niece and my son wanted to apply to the CIA. All smart and enthusiastic, but apparently only a certain group of people with specific qualifications references (I assume a politicians backing) .
I started the application process with the CIA when I was graduating from college in the 1980s. That was not my experience at all. That sounds more like what the military academies do.
Virtually all of the refresher training for people with clearances - DoD, intelligence agencies, etc - focuses on external threats and subversion. Case studies like Hanssen and Pollard. Not on internal threats; that needs to change posthaste.
I went through a clearance process in the early 90s for the lowest level since I had to work at a "Black" site. I don't remember: Do you take an oath to defend the Constitution as part of getting a clearance?
Wow, the SpyTalk piece is quite disheartening. It seems well within the realm of probability that persons drawn to clandestine work might not all be qualified.....I mean you want to lie and deceive for a living. Weeding out the nut jobs seems like that would be top of list.....no?
IMHO, if we have learned anything since this country elected Trump, we have learned that there are A LOT of people, and I mean a whole lot, who are simply not willing to live among various ethnicities, orientations, races, genders and religious faiths.
It's weird to me because my friend when I was younger, my niece and my son wanted to apply to the CIA. All smart and enthusiastic, but apparently only a certain group of people with specific qualifications references (I assume a politicians backing) .
I started the application process with the CIA when I was graduating from college in the 1980s. That was not my experience at all. That sounds more like what the military academies do.
Perhaps it's changed. My son and niece would have looked into around 2010.
This the same with getting a job in the Chicago Police dept. If you don't have the backing of an alderman, forget about it.
Virtually all of the refresher training for people with clearances - DoD, intelligence agencies, etc - focuses on external threats and subversion. Case studies like Hanssen and Pollard. Not on internal threats; that needs to change posthaste.
I went through a clearance process in the early 90s for the lowest level since I had to work at a "Black" site. I don't remember: Do you take an oath to defend the Constitution as part of getting a clearance?