Re: Technical author leading resistance to background checks at NASA

[Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

I don't understand this. How is this any different
from the background checks I had to go through for a
security clearance when I went into the Army? That
still go on for military personnel? I didn't hear any
uproar about those - why is this NASA thing
particularly heinous?

I would think that the point of wanting to look at
that information would be pretty obvious - NASA wants
to reevaluate its people on the basis of degree of
risk for potential blackmail or leanings toward
anti-government activity. I can understand NASA and
the JPL being concerned about such things. I am not
convinced that this new background check violates the
4th Amendment because I am not convinced that it is
unreasonable. I can understand her being concerned
that the investigators may not keep that data safe,
but that's a different issue.

Please note that I am NOT among the "you got nothing
to fear from the government if you're clean" crowd.
But with the information I have right now, I'm not
convinced that she has a leg to stand on. (Yes, I know
that's a bad sentence.)


--- Chris Borokowski <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:

> She seems like a smart lady. I'm inclined to agree
> that she knows what
> she's doing.
> 
> "They don't tell you what they're looking for, they
> don't tell you when
> they're looking for it, they won't tell us what
> they're doing with the
> data," said plaintiff Susan Foster, a technical
> writer and editor at
> JPL for nearly 40 years. 
> 
>
http://www.space.com/news/070830_nasa_jpl_lawsuit.html
> 
> 
> http://technical-writing.dionysius.com/
> technical writing | consulting | development
> 
> 
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