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US Network to Scan Workers with Secret Clearances......

I asked if you if you think people with access to sensitive information and operations should be held under close scrutiny or not.

I don't care much Obama's promise: it was either just something he said to drum up votes from the dumb among us, or it was something he honestly thought but they realized was a dumb idea. Either way, he didn't do it, and that's good.

Sure, they can be held under close scrutiny, but in a democracy as we like to believe and project that we are, one must have an avenue to call attention to crimes against our laws and constitution. I can assure you of one thing, it is imposed upon me as a business owner, working with/for the federal government, that I inform, in writing my employees that if they observe, or are themselves asked to engage in activity that is illegal, that they are obliged to report it, and I am required to provide them with the contact people and their numbers. Whistle blower protection.

As to the other, we just disagree.
 
Sure, they can be held under close scrutiny, but in a democracy as we like to believe and project that we are, one must have an avenue to call attention to crimes against our laws and constitution. I can assure you of one thing, it is imposed upon me as a business owner, working with/for the federal government, that I inform, in writing my employees that if they observe, or are themselves asked to engage in activity that is illegal, that they are obliged to report it, and I am required to provide them with the contact people and their numbers. Whistle blower protection.

As to the other, we just disagree.

And this doesn't change anything you talked about. So why did you?
 
As pointed out in the op, the system is amongst other things, to identify leakers, i.e., whistleblowers.

It identifies leakers, not whistleblowers. Why do you think they're the same thing?
 
It identifies leakers, not whistleblowers. Why do you think they're the same thing?

They CAN be. And this program is coming into existence as a result of Snowden, the leaker/whistleblowers revelations.
 
They CAN be. And this program is coming into existence as a result of Snowden, the leaker/whistleblowers revelations.

Snowden had a TS, not a secret clearance. And leakers are not whistleblowers.
 
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