Homeland Un-Security’s New Counter-Un-Intelligence Division

Source: Wikipedia

Here’s yet another reason why our intelligence agencies as well as our government continue to fail us. Recently, the Department of Homeland Security created a new Counterintelligence division charged with increasing “counterspying efforts across all agencies” and raising “the awareness of intelligence vulnerabilities in private industry and in protecting government secrets”. → source

That sound like a great plan. What’s the issue, you may ask? Michael Chertoff, the Homeland Security Secretary, has evidently found it necessary to educate the employees of this division in common-sense security matters. In an internal memo, Chertoff warns employees they should suspect espionage if:

1. Someone asks an employee for classified and sensitive information or access to systems.
2. Someone asks an employee traveling overseas to bring back an envelope or package.
3. An employee has regular contact with a person suspected of being part of a foreign intelligence service, terrorist group or foreign criminal enterprise.
4. Someone makes a request that makes a department employee uncomfortable or compromised.
5. A department employee has a personal relationship with a foreigner that seems suspicious.
6. There is suspicious behavior with a foreigner inside or outside the department.

Well, I feel much better about the security of our nation. Don’t you?!