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Washington Post Plans to Out Companies and Individuals Doing Intelligence Work

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  July 16th, 2010 at 10:11 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

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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  • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack

    Screw ‘em. They’re mercs.

  • Aaron Gardner

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

  • johnt

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

  • gekster
  • Xasteius

    the government watchers.

  • Read Chesterton

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

  • http://www.redstate.com/etcartman Kenny Solomon

    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.

  • StandardCandle

    Obviously the administration is cool with it…

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

  • http://www.reddogreport.com reddogreport

    Had to retract the Fix’s headline earlier today.

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

  • smagar

    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?

  • smagar

    Anyone else?

  • Tbone

    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.”

  • E Pluribus Unum

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

  • E Pluribus Unum

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

  • texasgalt
  • E Pluribus Unum

    nt

  • E Pluribus Unum

    nt

  • The_Gadfly

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

  • http://www.facebook.com/vidaestrada Veronica

    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.

  • From ME to You

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

  • http://www.facebook.com/vidaestrada Veronica

    (“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?

  • http://www.facebook.com/vidaestrada Veronica

    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.

  • johnm

    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.

  • johnt

    how could they, they’ve chosen sides.

  • littlehouse18
  • littlehouse18
  • http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

    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.

  • oxowhitney

    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.

  • http://www.redstate.com/etcartman Kenny Solomon

    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.

  • Marcus_Traianus

    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.

  • http://www.redstate.com/etcartman Kenny Solomon

    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.

  • Marcus_Traianus

    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.

  • Marcus_Traianus

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

  • brinksmom

    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.