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- From: henry@ADS.COM (Henry Mensch)
- Subject: Re: FBI Security Investigations... (was "No Wavering on Gay Soldiers")
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.174433.15647@ads.com>
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- Organization: Advanced Decision Systems; a div of Booz, Allen & Hamilton
- References: <1993Jan22.150448.4899@dvorak.amd.com> <1993Jan23.143722.5608@macc.wisc.edu> <1993Jan24.190410.25348@dvorak.amd.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:44:33 GMT
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- tdbear@dvorak.amd.com (Thomas D. Barrett) wrote:
- ->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.
-
- umm, "the Company" doesn't actively appeal *anything* ... the appeal
- is a matter between an individual and the us government.
-
- furthermore, the FBI doesn't conduct the investigations (at least for
- DoD) ...
-
- ->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.
-
- ooh. you stud! 8-}
-
- -> ... 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.
-
- that sounds about right.
-
- ->be asked to leave the room than to not be able to sleep at nights.
-
- umm, "being asked to leave the room" is only the tip of the iceberg.
-
- --
- # henry mensch / booz, allen & hamilton, inc. / <henry@ads.com>
- # "fight the real enemy." -- sinead o'connor, and many others.
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