The latest in American STASI-style
by digby
I’m sure you’ll be glad to know that the government has been working hard to improve its ability to have government co-workers efficiently spy on one another:
A major element of the Defense Department’s new program to better detect insider threats will be up and running by next month, at least on an initial operating capability basis, a top Pentagon security official said last week.
The DoD Insider Threat Management Analysis Center (DITMAC) will be in charge of collecting and coordinating potentially “adverse” information about Defense employees and other people with access to DoD facilities including automated criminal records checks, tracking cases of possible insider threats and helping to decide whether intervention of some kind is warranted.
“It really is intended to be the central hub for the department’s insider threat programs,” said Carrie Wibben, the director for security and policy oversight within the office of the undersecretary of Defense for intelligence. “They are focused on establishing a lot of the enterprise capabilities — the things that we don’t want all 43 of our components doing on their own or duplicating. That means behavioral analysis, predictive analytics, risk rating tools and insider threat systems for centralized reporting.”
After the DITMAC is up and running and serving as a central information clearinghouse, DoD plans to shift its focus to helping the military departments and combatant commands establish their own “hubs” that will feed information of potential concern into the DITMAC.
If you work for the government, folks, I wouldn’t make any enemies of your co-workers or give anyone the impression you are competing with them for a promotion. Certainly, don’t act in any way that someone might call “suspicious.” If someone wants to do a little sabotage on your career, if not your life, your behavior will be noted and stored in the database. Forever.
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