polgara
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Re: Hillary's State Department Refused to Brand Boko Haram as Terrorists
Wow! Quite a security process. You're okay! :thumbs: BTW, you showed good judgment on the beer thing, too! ...:lamo: Is it the feeling of power that comes with the job that causes missteps for some? I know that we can't always be superior beings all the time, and I can overlook soliciting prostitutes - it's no different in Italy than anywhere else - but the danger of blackmail does exist which causes concern, I guess. The sexual harassment lawsuits are a different problem, though, but that's for the courts to sort out.
I worked in the Law Department for a while at the Company I was employed with, and I also had a security clearance from the Government, because I dealt with aerospace companies. The unusual thing was that I would never have known I was being checked if my neighbor hadn't told me that all the people on our street had been contacted about me and my family. She asked me "what on earth are you involved in?" That has been a puzzle to me for years, because it was just a job to me, and I knew you didn't talk about what you were doing. I passed whatever test they were giving, I guess, because I did that job for years. They probably just figured that I was too young to be a problem! :mrgreen: Real life is stranger than fiction sometimes! :shock:
Yes, they are, extensively, I know first hand, I was hired by State. They spent about 3 months going through every thing in my record, interviewed neighbors, former bosses, went through my bank accounts, records, any travel internationally I had done (and there was a lot of it), and, because I am a dual citizen, they had the other country do the same. I was surveilled for a time, and if I had even picked my nose at a stoplight, they would have known... And this was for an administrative management job. Ultimately I didn't accept it, I had just purchased my house and my dog and couldn't drop everything to move to DC and then to a mystery embassy at the drop of a hat. If I knew that I was going to move to an embassy in a stable, nice country, that would have swayed my decision, but they could have sent me to any number of armpits of the world, including ones that don't even have decent beer.
Wow! Quite a security process. You're okay! :thumbs: BTW, you showed good judgment on the beer thing, too! ...:lamo: Is it the feeling of power that comes with the job that causes missteps for some? I know that we can't always be superior beings all the time, and I can overlook soliciting prostitutes - it's no different in Italy than anywhere else - but the danger of blackmail does exist which causes concern, I guess. The sexual harassment lawsuits are a different problem, though, but that's for the courts to sort out.
I worked in the Law Department for a while at the Company I was employed with, and I also had a security clearance from the Government, because I dealt with aerospace companies. The unusual thing was that I would never have known I was being checked if my neighbor hadn't told me that all the people on our street had been contacted about me and my family. She asked me "what on earth are you involved in?" That has been a puzzle to me for years, because it was just a job to me, and I knew you didn't talk about what you were doing. I passed whatever test they were giving, I guess, because I did that job for years. They probably just figured that I was too young to be a problem! :mrgreen: Real life is stranger than fiction sometimes! :shock: