{"id":11032,"date":"2016-01-25T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=11032"},"modified":"2016-01-25T12:00:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T18:00:36","slug":"humor-new-dod-regulations-confirm-that-opsec-does-not-apply-to-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/25\/humor-new-dod-regulations-confirm-that-opsec-does-not-apply-to-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Humor: New DOD Regulations Confirm that OPSEC Does Not Apply to Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"

I always get a kick out of the Duffel Blog. This is what Everybody is thinking and this is what should be printed versus the spin and outright lies. -SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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THE PENTAGON \u2014 The Department of Defense is set to release new security rules later this\u00a0week, making it clear that consequences for violations\u00a0don\u2019t apply equally to everyone<\/em>, sources say. The revisions will make explicit what has until recently been an informal system that occasionally\u00a0treated powerful people the same as peons, and, more rarely, sometimes failed to bring the wrath of God down on regular people acting out of conscience.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Snowden and Manning happened, releasing thousands of classified documents to civilian sources without approval, the way forward was pretty clear,\u201d explained Col. Antonio Jimenez,\u00a0who helped craft the\u00a0new regulations. \u201cManning is in a military prison and Snowden sleeps with one eye open.\u201d<\/p>\n

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter\u00a0says\u00a0that things \u201cget\u00a0complicated\u201d when high-level individuals start mishandling, or even deliberately leaking information to the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cSnowden was just a civilian analyst, and Manning was an Army private,\u201d Carter\u00a0noted. \u201cThey didn\u2019t have a chance. Manning had the right idea, becoming a woman and all, but she did it after she was convicted, so the victim\u00a0angle didn\u2019t do her any favors. If she\u2019d done it before she\u2019d probably already have a book deal and a job at MSNBC.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Petreaus was caught giving secret information to his mistress, my predecessors initially\u00a0ignored it, because Iraq,\u201d Carter said. \u201cPlus she was kind of hot. Unfortunately, the new guidance from the White House says\u00a0that military violations, but not political ones, must be dealt with harshly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carter appointed a\u00a0Committee for State Security to write new regulations to comply with the directives of the White House.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, we\u2019re looking at taking a star away from him,\u201d Jimenez said. \u201cIf he\u2019d been a member of congress or a former first lady of the United States then it would be a different story.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jimenez\u00a0apparently was referring to former First Lady and Senator, and current presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

Clinton\u2019s use of an insecure, private server for Top Secret\u00a0emails, and a complete lack of accountability, forced the Pentagon and the White House to finally address accusations that high ranking individuals are treated differently when it comes to standards for handling classified information.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone has always known that was the case,\u201d said Jimenez. \u201cBut now we\u2019ve clearly defined who gets away with what. If you\u2019re a military officer you pretty much get a free pass at lieutenant general and higher. There\u2019s a sliding scale from there down to colonel that mostly depends on who you know.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we still have to nail Petraeus\u2019 balls to the wall, because appearances.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jimenez discussed the progression of punishment, noting,\u00a0\u201cAt the very top you can see that if you\u2019re actually holding a Cabinet post or Congressional seat\u00a0you\u2019re also given the option to pin your own violation on someone of lesser status.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked why the chart didn\u2019t list punishments or alternatives for anyone under the rank of O-6 or GS-15, Jimenez laughed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose people are still in the real military where stuff like that matters. They\u2019re all fucked.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0Read the Original at Duffel Blog<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n

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