Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Chelsea Manning exposes dangers of 'Insider Threat' program-Free Chelsea Manning Now!

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Chelsea Manning exposes dangers of
'Insider Threat' program

The ‘Insider Threat’ program could have thousands of government employees under total surveillance, reports Chelsea Manning in a Guardian op-ed last week. 'Insider Threat’ was created in response to Chelsea’s disclosure of documents to Wikileaks in 2010; It encourages government employees to examine each other for potential personality traits and motives that might fall in line with a future “threat”—or whistleblower. Chelsea obtained a profile on herself the program intends for use as training material. The document, released by Chelsea to the Guardian, labels her as “disgruntled”, “ideological”, and having “financial difficulties”—all of which are supposedly indications of motive. In her op-ed, Chelsea asses the danger of this, "subjective labeling". It "could easily be applied to virtually every single person currently holding a security clearance.” The program is, “modern-day McCarthyism" adds Jessleyn Radack, attorney for Thomas Drake and Edward Snowden. “It effectively stifles workplace free speech, dissent and is openly trying to deter whistleblowers.”
Chelsea Manning, Guardian OpEd
Mar 18, 2015

The US government is heavily invested in an internal surveillance program that is unsustainable, ineffective, morally reprehensible, inherently dangerous and ultimately counterproductive.
...Late last year, the ODNI released internal training material that characterized [Thomas] Drake, and other government officials, as threats akin to the Fort Hood and Navy Yard mass shooters.
When this revelation was made public, a letter from 22 civil liberties and press freedom organizations decried the government’s “wanton misuse of the term ‘threat’” and their failure to “understand the distinction between a whistleblower and a genuine threat”.

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