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Only people with top-secret security clearances could read her musings,
\n which were posted on Intelink, the intelligence community’s classified
\n intranet. Writing as Covert Communications, CC for short, she opined
\n in her online journal on such national security conundrums as stagflation,
\n the war of ideas in the Middle East and — in her most popular post
\n — bad food in the CIA cafeteria.Buy This PhotoChristine Axsmith,
\n with her husband, Justin Benedict, says she was fired by BAE Systems
\n after she took a stand on the Geneva <\/p>\n
But the hundreds of blog readers who responded to her irreverent entries
\n with titles such as "Morale Equals Food" won’t be joining
\n her ever again.<\/p>\n
On July 13, after she posted her views on torture and the Geneva Conventions,
\n her blog was taken down and her security badge was revoked. On Monday,
\n Axsmith was terminated by her employer, BAE Systems, which was helping
\n the CIA test software.<\/p>\n
She said she apologized
\n right away and figured she would get reprimanded and her blog would
\n be eliminated. She never dreamed she would be fired. Now, Axsmith said, "I’m
\n scared, terrified really" of being criminally prosecuted for unauthorized
\n use of a government computer system, something one of the security
\n officers mentioned to her.<\/p>\n
from the Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n This is an increasingly sticky wicket in which many And this on top of losing our second job as Webmaster On the one hand, we feel more than justified, as we On the other hand, in retrospect, not such a sharp career We wish Ms. Axsmith all the luck in the world in finding Only people with top-secret security clearances could read her musings, which were posted on Intelink, the intelligence community’s classified intranet. Writing as Covert Communications, CC for short, she opined in her online journal on such national security conundrums as stagflation, … Continue reading
\n bloggers are getting stuck – and screwed. After almost losing his own
\n precious job, the Dowbrigade voluntarily and of his own free will,
\n took a blood oath to never blog about his work, his employer, his colleagues,
\n o rhis students past, present or future.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n of a small media company for blogging a little known fact about a physical
\n disability of a certain South American dictator, which turned out to
\n be a leak of highly classified information which could have been traced
\n back to my ex-employer.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n were never told the information was classified or embargoed, the person
\n who divulged it to us regularly fed us juicy items to blog about, and
\n after all, it seems ingenious to tell a juicy secret to a blogger and
\n then be shocked when it appears in a blog.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n move.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n a non-classified job.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"