Washington Post Plans to Out Companies and Individuals Doing Intelligence Work


This morning I received this memo from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

In it, the ODNI advises its “industry partners,” that is those corporations and individuals who do work to assist the security of the country, that the Washington Post is planning on outing them.

Early next week, the Washington Post is expected to publish articles and an interactive website that will likely contain a compendium of government agencies and contractors allegedly conducting Top Secret work. The website is expected to enable users to see the relationships between the federal government and its contractors, describe the type of work the contractors perform, and may identify many government and contractor facility locations.

Um . . . what?

The memo says the Post will begin running the stories on July 19, 2010, which must be the start of ratings week or something.

I’m also told that the Obama Administration, outside of the intelligence corridor, is “basically cool with it.”

Cool with this? Seriously? There’s this paragraph:

Foreign intelligence services, terrorist organizations, and criminal elements will have potential interest in this kind of information. It is important that companies review their overall counterintelligence posture to ensure that it is appropriate. Specifically, we recommend that companies affected by this publication and website assess and take steps to mitigate risk to their workforce, facility and mission, to the extent consistent with your contractual relationship with ODNI. These steps should include re-enforcement of security and counterintelligence protections and steps to enhance workforce awareness. CI and security events related to the publication of these articles and website should be reported through normal company channels to the MSC/Security office. For the time being, thresholds should be lowered to aggressively report anomalous behavior.

Remember the left cheering when the New York Times did this stuff to the Bush Administration? Somehow I suspect they’ll still actually cheer for this, which won’t exactly do anything to reassure the American people that those in charge are good on national security issues.


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The Kossification of WAPO

Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Friday, July 16th at 10:14AM EDT (link)

Screw ‘em. They’re mercs.

Mr. Obama is pretending that an economic “recovery” is underway when he knows damn well that the banking system is just blowing smoke up the shredded *** of what’s left of that economy – James Howard Kunstler

 

This is bad.

Aaron Gardner (Diary) Friday, July 16th at 10:17AM EDT (link)

And the idea that any President would be “cool” with this is sickening.

conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!

“We’d be much better off if We The People had desired small government enough to keep it.” acat


 

Another step in a war against America and sanity

johnt Friday, July 16th at 10:24AM EDT (link)

waged by our president and the media who created him.
The psychosis is getting out of hand.

“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville

 

If you didn't think Obama wasn't trying to destroy America before, here's proof that he does.

gekster (Diary) Friday, July 16th at 10:24AM EDT (link)

They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.

We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway

I’ve gone from
“Hope and Change” to
“Hopeless and Changeless”

 

Comment self-redacted because of site policy and

Xasteius (Diary) Friday, July 16th at 10:30AM EDT (link)

the government watchers.

Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!

The only poll that counts is the one at the ballot box.

I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be a Chance/Soros hybrid.

 

Obama once again "stickin' it to the man..."

H (Diary) Friday, July 16th at 10:47AM EDT (link)

Just continues to make our case that, indeed, he is *no* man.

 

Let's guess who's on that list.......

Kenny Solomon (Diary) Friday, July 16th at 10:57AM EDT (link)

Everybody’s outed is gonna “somehow” be shown as a registered Republican, tea-partying, gun-toting racist who wants to start a shooting war.

Betcha I’m close.

 

one wonders just EXACTLY how the WaPo confirmed this information...?

Justin Spagnolo (Diary) Friday, July 16th at 11:17AM EDT (link)

Obviously the administration is cool with it…

This isn’t funny, it’s not even a bad joke…

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. “ -James Madison

 

WaPo's had a tough day

reddogreport (Diary) Friday, July 16th at 11:26AM EDT (link)

Had to retract the Fix’s headline earlier today.

http://reddogreport.com/2010/07/is-the-wapo-trying-to-fix-the-nevada-senate-race/

Brian O’Connor
Red Dog Report
http://www.RedDogReport.com
“Conservative Opinion”
@RedDogReport

 

If some crazy dude shoots up a contractor facility that the WaPo discloses...

smagar (Diary) Friday, July 16th at 11:56AM EDT (link)

a la the guy who shot people trying to drive into CIA HQ a few years ago…will the WaPo accept any responsibility for that?

As a defense contractor, formerly based in the DC area, I have to wonder if the WaPo is losing its mind.

Many defense contractors read the Post, and have read it for years. How will they convice their readers that they’re not carelessly (?) imperiling them?

Defense contractors also know that facility locations aren’t publicly acknowledged for a variety of reasons. Here are a few:
- Crazy guys showing up in the employee parking lot, perhaps with guns
- Many defense contractors have branches overseas, sometimes in places that are dangerous. Some companies REALLY fear for the safety of their personnel overseas, if their corporate relationship with the DOD becomes known.
- On the business side, some companies stand to lose lots of business if it becomes known that they work with our DOD. Hey…this must mean that the DC area is immune to further corporate layoffs! Wow…what a relief.

Note to Washington Post: defense contractors can easily move to Colorado, Texas, Florida—-all places much more friendly to our armed forces and the businesses that support them.

If I was Rick Perry, Governor of Texas, I’d staple copies of this ODNI notice to letters I would mail to each CEO and president of an affected defense contractor. The letter would be headlined: Come to Texas! We’ll support you, not imperil you.

I wonder what the Fairfax, Prince William, Loudoun and Arlington city councils have to say about this?

“Who will stand/On either hand/And guard this bridge with me?” (Macaulay)

I've just received an URGENT notification about this, from my company

smagar (Diary) Friday, July 16th at 12:00PM EDT (link)

Anyone else?

“Who will stand/On either hand/And guard this bridge with me?” (Macaulay)

Next move; bus tours to company officials homes

Marcus_Traianus (Diary) Saturday, July 17th at 8:29AM EDT (link)

get ready for Code Pink and the other Democrat crazies to start the bus tours to company officials homes. Oh, it will all be done under the guise of lawful protest, even when they start trampling on your lawn and harassing your family. But don’t worry, Obama and Holder are “cool with that”. Welcome to Obama’s Amerika.

“Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object—the public good; but they differ essentially in what they deem the means of promoting that good. One side believes it best done by one composition of the governing powers; the other, by a different one. One fears most the ignorance of the people; the other, the selfishness of rulers independent of them. Which is right, time and experience will prove.”.Thomas Jefferson

I've a feeling they're also gonna ramp it up a notch or two.

Kenny Solomon (Diary) Saturday, July 17th at 8:39AM EDT (link)

Watch the pattern……… That will rarely happen in any state with a castle doctrine or documented-in-law right of the people to defend themselves on their own property and anywhere else….. a.k.a., a ‘Castle Doctrine’.

And if the Leftists are that crazy to ramp it up, well…….. sucks to be them.

I have always been somewhat partial to the "Mossberg Doctrine"

Marcus_Traianus (Diary) Saturday, July 17th at 9:15AM EDT (link)

Combined with a guard dog whose relatives have spent some time in A-stan- it is a magic combination.

“Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object—the public good; but they differ essentially in what they deem the means of promoting that good. One side believes it best done by one composition of the governing powers; the other, by a different one. One fears most the ignorance of the people; the other, the selfishness of rulers independent of them. Which is right, time and experience will prove.”.Thomas Jefferson

 
 
 
 

Sadly, I suspect Fairfax, Prince William, Loudoun, and Arlington city officials

The_Gadfly (Diary) Friday, July 16th at 12:57PM EDT (link)

are down with it too. I see their names attached to too many other kool-aid drinker policies.

 

@Smagar

oxowhitney Friday, July 16th at 9:37PM EDT (link)

AMEN! One of the better ideas I’ve heard. If the WaPo carries through on this, they should be indited, at the very least for reckless endangerment, and preferably for aiding and abetting the enemy. Typical liberal scum.

 
 

Another opportunity for Republican Congressional leaders to demonstrate that they are worthless.

Tbone (Diary) Friday, July 16th at 12:21PM EDT (link)

How? Because they won’t go to the Washington Post and say: “Come January we will be running Congress and you will be headed to jail.”

Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.

That's the truth. Pence should do that TODAY

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Friday, July 16th at 12:24PM EDT (link)

I ignore Boehner and Cantor, because they do not exist to me. And I sincerely hope that Pence is the new Speaker come January.

Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO

I doubt Boehner and Cantor will stop reading their free Wapo

Marcus_Traianus (Diary) Saturday, July 17th at 9:06AM EDT (link)

That is, at least until they check the public opinion barometer and wind direction. Then, they will only read it in the privacy of their offices or have some aid read it for them.

“Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object—the public good; but they differ essentially in what they deem the means of promoting that good. One side believes it best done by one composition of the governing powers; the other, by a different one. One fears most the ignorance of the people; the other, the selfishness of rulers independent of them. Which is right, time and experience will prove.”.Thomas Jefferson

 
 

That's the truth. Pence should do that TODAY

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Friday, July 16th at 12:24PM EDT (link)

I ignore Boehner and Cantor, because they do not exist to me. And I sincerely hope that Pence is the new Speaker come January.

Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO

 

5^ To jail, where they belong --nt

texasgalt (Diary) Friday, July 16th at 12:25PM EDT (link)
 

Why should the Treason Times get all the glory?

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Friday, July 16th at 12:26PM EDT (link)

nt

Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO

 

Why should the Treason Times get all the glory?

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Friday, July 16th at 12:26PM EDT (link)

nt

Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO

 

some of the fusion centers are government contractors as well

Veronica (Diary) Friday, July 16th at 1:17PM EDT (link)

and if WaPO doesn’t report the fusion centers, then the American people have something to really be concerned about.

Because the fusion centers gather intelligence on the American people.

It’s bad all around.

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Pray as if everything depends on God, and work as if everything depends on us. – St. Augustine

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Higher level cooperation between sovereign gov'ts?

Veronica (Diary) Friday, July 16th at 1:44PM EDT (link)

(“interactive website” — can’t they file an injunction?)

Hubby and I are discussing this.

He reminds me that it’s standard corporate policy that all info pertaining to mergers and acquisitions, resource actions and other forms of confidential data are restricted to a need-to-know basis.

The same holds true for our military and defense and intelligence organizations.

The questions one has to ask is —

1. Who gathered this info?
2. For what purpose?
3. How was WaPo able to obtain this?
4. What, if any, investigation is going to occur?

A benign use of this kind of data would be for the government to identify areas of duplication of services, but even that should be confidential and conducted internally.

So, either if this data was gathered for this type of purpose, then people may be losing their clearance or losing their jobs.

Hence “take steps to mitigate risk to their workforce, facility and mission, to the extent consistent with your contractual relationship with ODNI.”

But if this was done just to put an org chart of our defense and intelligence agencies, we have to wonder why.

This is another step toward Obama’s brand of “transparency” — following the release of the nuke list.

Transparency for who?

Who’s benefiting from this? Other gov’ts and foreign intelligence agencies don’t publicly share this information — for good reason.

Could this be the beginning of a higher level of government cooperation among sovereign nations and intelligence gathering agencies for “information sharing”?

Anyone remember EO 12425?

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Pray as if everything depends on God, and work as if everything depends on us. – St. Augustine

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why the silence now? we're talking TOP SECRET

Veronica (Diary) Friday, July 16th at 1:50PM EDT (link)

Anyone remember the dems’ sh*tstorm over the CIAs Valerie Plame?

They wanted to have Dick Cheney impeached.

Scooter went to jail because of *1* name.

Why the silence now?

…yeah, hubby and I are still mumbling over here. This is unreal.

Insane — which is the absence of reality.

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Pray as if everything depends on God, and work as if everything depends on us. – St. Augustine

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Turn the tables on them!

From ME to You (Diary) Friday, July 16th at 1:34PM EDT (link)

Publish the addresses (with pictures) of ALL their printing facilities as well as the names and addresses of ALL their employees!

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It is time to out those who support traitors

johnm Friday, July 16th at 3:04PM EDT (link)

It is time to out those who support traitors.

Redstate should compile and post a list of advertisers who give money to the Washington Post and other traitors.

I wouldn’t knowingly give any money to someone who supported my enemies, but you have to know, in order to act appropriately.

Cancel your subscription if you haven't already -nt.

littlehouse18 (Diary) Friday, July 16th at 5:38PM EDT (link)
 

Bet the WaPo doesn't out terrrorist supporters,

johnt Friday, July 16th at 3:50PM EDT (link)

how could they, they’ve chosen sides.

“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville

Traitors. -nt

littlehouse18 (Diary) Friday, July 16th at 5:37PM EDT (link)
 

Meanwhile, the left and MSM is up in arms regarding "the list" of alleged illegals in UT

SoFiMil (Diary) Friday, July 16th at 7:48PM EDT (link)

and the personal information that’s contained in the list. Their already looking for how they can throw the creators of this list in jail.

A study in contrast:

The Obama Administration is“basically cool with” the list of intelligence members that will be published in the WaPo vs. their reaction to the list of alleged illegal aliens.

www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com

 

The more I think about this 'outing'......

Kenny Solomon (Diary) Friday, July 16th at 11:30PM EDT (link)

The more it seems to be another “nudge” from the most dangerous man in America – the world’s greatest no-goodnik – Boris Ba Cass Sunstein.

But this one moves ‘a bit further’, more like a great big shove in the back.

Mr. Sunstein’s title is a blast from the past out of Nazi Germany……. Administrator of The White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

This ‘outing’ isn’t investigative work. too massive – can’t possibly have all been done from any sort of F.O.I.A. thing either.

This whole thing is a massive undertaking into what are almost assuredly a mountain of classified documents and computerized files, along with people who need to be exposed as traitors and treated as such……..

It could also be as simple as a compiled on purpose file (or an already existing one) that was presented as a gift to a fellow travelers as a thank you for getting the administration in place – to further the agenda more and faster.

Hey, it’s just ‘freedom of information’ isn’t it ? – All from the most transparent administration in history.

Transparent…… That they are……. I can see right through them…… straight into the depths of hell unleashed on a free people.

You don’t think the administration is capable of doing this ‘outing’, do you ?

I know you don’t, because Americans don’t want to think like that about other Americans, especially on something as large a scale as this.

Why not ?

The front man said it himself five days before the election.

“……..we will begin to fundamentally transform The United States.”

Nudge.

 

And how will this help?

brinksmom Saturday, July 17th at 9:25AM EDT (link)

I am old enough to remember when stupid boneheaded moves like this one by the WAPO were called by what they are-TREASON! But with Nobama regime and its minions, down is up, dark is light , wrong is right and there will be no consequences for the offender.