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2005-03-08 Home Front: WoT

Spy Agencies Fear Some Applicants Are Terrorists

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Posted by longtime lurker 2005-03-08 11:21:29 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 In some cases, the officials said, those most qualified for such sensitive jobs â naturalized Americans who grew up in the Middle East or South Asia, for example, and who are native speakers of Arabic, Farsi, Dari, Urdu and other crucial languages â have proved the most difficult to vet during background checks.

If someone can't be checked out satisfactorily, then don't hire them, simple as that. Compromising security in an effort to gain access to needed language skills is pretty damned stupid. This should not be difficult to figure out.

In addition, because of restrictions imposed by U.S. privacy laws, authorities at one spy service may not know that someone they had rejected later found a job at another agency or at a defense contractor working on classified systems.

So DO SOMETHING about that then. Good God, they're "looking at that"???

The way government operates sometimes is simply maddening.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-08 9:23:22 PM|| 2005-03-08 9:23:22 PM|| Front Page Top

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