That’s where you’re wrong kiddo.
Can you elaborate and provide evidence and examples
“Spying” is such a childish word in this context. You’re just adding clickbait to your post.
They are not “watching your every move”, but they will keep tabs on you to an extent. It’s no different than being in the military–as a subject of the US government, you are expected to maintain certain standards of ethics and behavior.
When you get a clearance, you give up some privacy and liberty in exchange for a clearance. That’s how it works. If you don’t like it, you can quit and look for work elsewhere. In short, DO NOT ever emulate Snowden, Manning, Mallory, etc. IT WILL cost you your clearance and career prospects. Does not matter if you disagree.
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Pretty sure gmail is blocked on Unclass towers hooked up to the network. That was the case for my last gig. You could get on FB, but gmail was a no go. I forget the exact reason as to why, but I wanna say it’s because the government couldn’t view your exact traffic.
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Just chiming in on this. Would someone want to check their personal gmail, instagram or facebook on government computers while on the clock at work? Especially in the IC. I wouldn’t do it.
I am in I.T. and even though we have a terms of use that pops up before ever employee logins. That more or less says if you use your computer for anything else but work you could be subject to action including termination. No one worries about it and everyone checks their personal email and are on facebook etc.
The only time it comes into play if someone suspects the employee viewing porn at work or if the company wants to get rid of you they used to “pull your web history” to use as extra ammo. But that was when we had Websense and could actually track daily web surfing. Now we no longer use Websense and we don’t even tracking your history just get alerts when certain categories of web sites are went to.
I guess my point is. IMO doesn’t matter if it is blocked or not blocked I wouldn’t check those things at work. I’d use my cell phone (mobile data only) or if I couldn’t bring my cell phone in the building when I got off shift. God knows I wouldn’t want to jump thru all the hoops to get the position of my dreams only to get canned because I didn’t have enough sense to stay off of facebook at work, that would be embarrassing.
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@hawk911
“I would have to guess you are processing for language analyst with studying abroad at those locations. I have seen those timelines drag out worse than mine. I wouldn’t worry about any “spying”.
Hi. Just fished this quote of yours from some time ago. Why do you say that language analysts (Linguist Contractor in my case) timelines are longer than others? Have you seen that in your experience as an investigator?
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Anybody else can comment on my post above?
If you look at the reported timelines on other sites like Fed Soup they report longer timelines than others.
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But why? I don’t understand what’s so special about Linguists compared to say, some other people working in intelligence.
Many of the linguists are native speakers and therefore have ties to foreign nationals. Becuase of this there is an extra layers of scrutiny in order to determine their clearance eligibility.
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I see. Makes sense… what would you expect someone going for a Linguist Contractor (TS) coming from the former USSR with tons of foreign travel timeline to be?
Are you processing for the agency in VA or MD?
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It’s FBI. For a contract role though, they don’t hire for an employee right away.
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An article published today by the Wall Street Journal suggests that the FBI has illegally used NSA intercepts for personnel investigations, noting “The [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] court ruling identifies tens of thousands of improper searches of raw intelligence databases by the bureau in 2017 and 2018 that it deemed improper in part because they involved data related to tens of thousands of emails or telephone numbers—in one case, suggesting that the FBI was using the intelligence information to vet its personnel and cooperating sources:” https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbis-use-of-foreign-surveillance-tool-violated-americans-privacy-rights-court-found-11570559882
Not all former USSR countries are treated equal. Some are considered friendlier than others. Someone from Russia will take longer than someone from, I don’t know, let’s say Latvia, even though both might speak the same language and be of the same ethnicity.
The USSR hasn’t been a country in decades. Neither has the Soviet Union. Do you mean Russia or CIS?
You need to pay attention to the thread. They said former USSR countries. And referring to this region as Russia or CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), which is a pseudo/half ass Soviet Union 2.0, ironically headquartered in Belarus, but ran by Russia, is foolish. Just like the Eurasian Economic Union, the half ass version of the EU, is ironically headquartered in Kazakhstan, which Russia also runs. Just refer to it as the former USSR. Keeps things simple. By the way, Russia is apart of CIS. So it’s not Russia or CIS. It is just CIS.
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Yeap. I normally say “former Soviet Union” when referring to some former Soviet republic. 90% of people wouldn’t even find Moldova or Azerbaijan on the map.
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Are you citing current facts or your opinion? many current nations / countries didn’t exist separately in the USSR/soviet union. If you look at a map from the 70s 80s etc vs today there are many more countries listed now. They gained nationhood after the breakup. Russia is part of CIS. Russia also is a separate nation. I don’t know that every former Soviet country is part of CIS? I think USSR is a more historic and outdated label then Soviet Union.
CIS is a union of 9 out of the 15 former Soviet republics. It was formed immediately after the collapse of the USSR. It has nothing to do with looking at a map. It is history. And countries not existing, but miraculously gaining nationhood after the USSR collapsed sounds like some pro-Kremlin mumbo jumbo. Trust me, I like studying Russia and the entire former Soviet Eurasian region from a historical, cultural and political perspective, but claiming that countries didn’t exist before the Russians came and civilized them (which is where I can tell you’re taking this) is foolish. USSR isn’t outdated. The whole thing collapsed not long ago. We can call the region Eurasia, but it might include some other places that don’t have strong ethno-linguistic ties to the former Soviet Union.
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