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- From: tdbear@dvorak.amd.com (Thomas D. Barrett)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: FBI Security Investigations... (was "No Wavering on Gay Soldiers")
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.190410.25348@dvorak.amd.com>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 19:04:10 GMT
- References: <=5j3jfh@rpi.edu> <1993Jan22.150448.4899@dvorak.amd.com> <1993Jan23.143722.5608@macc.wisc.edu>
- Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas
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- In article <1993Jan23.143722.5608@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
- >
- >At the bottom line, the investigator's opinion,
- >as long as it's not based on plain old bigotry, is all we
- >have to go on.
-
- But that is the problem when it is based on one (typically) man's
- opinion. In most cases, a new-hire who is denied a security clearance
- will be terminated rather than the company actively appealing the
- decision.
-
- I just don't have a warm and fuzzy feeling that the Bureau gives a damn
- about making sure their investigators are not biased. It sometimes is
- a crap shoot.
-
- On a personal subject... I have never been in a position where I
- needed a security clearance, and I don't think that I would be happy
- working in a position where I really had to have one. It's not that I
- am a security risk, it's that I am somewhat of a radical. I respect
- some aspects of security, but have trouble knowing about issues when I
- see them as morally wrong and unethical. I have no desire to put
- myself in the stressful situation of knowing something that needs to
- be told, but I can't tell it. In a situation like that, I loose all
- respect for those with whom I share the secret. So... that in a
- nutshell is why I don't want a security clearance, and that is why
- those who would be investigating me should deny it. I'd much rather
- be asked to leave the room than to not be able to sleep at nights.
-
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