Problems Protecting Classified Information at Port Hueneme
An article in the Ventura County Star reports that Port Hueneme Navy officials didn’t trust a security manager to keep classified information safe. The security manager for the Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center at Port Hueneme in 2008 was gone after 10 months on the job and put on administrative
Former Boeing Engineer Gets 15 Years For China Spying
Did you ever bring 300,000 pages of sensitive (i.e. aerospace and defense technologies) documents home to write a book without informing anyone, including your company? Me neither. A former Boeing engineer says that’s all he was doing. He was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison earlier this week.
CIA's Talent Retention Program?
An article in POLITICO this morning is an interesting tale. Apparently, the CIA is offering their operatives to the private sector. The work they perform is not on “government time”, but as a side gig. When I first saw this story, I thought it would be agents consulting along
Nidal Hasan’s Security Clearance
Once again the news media got it wrong. Referring to the Report of the DoD Independent Review Related to Fort Hood (Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood), an Associated Press article, claimed: “Their investigation also found his top-level security clearance hadn’t been properly investigated.” A WashingtonPost.com article stated: “The