CDR: Re: CIA proctologists

[Declan McCullagh]

Speaking of which, check out Brookings' very nice "survivor's guide"
on surviving the executive branch appointment/confirmation process.
Background on security investigations a bonus.

-Declan

On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 08:56:49PM -0500, Ray Dillinger wrote:
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> On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 anonymous at openpgp.net wrote:
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> >US Citizenship is required, as is successful completion of a medical evaluation, polygraph interview and an extensive background investigation.
> >
> >A "medical evaluation"??
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> >http://www.odci.gov/cia/employment/jobpostings/architectstud.htm
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> Pretty standard procedure.  A medical evaluation can detect drug 
> users, alcohol users, people whose brain chemistry is different, 
> etc.  It can also detect people who are likely to be more or less 
> expensive to insure, people who need drugs (from insulin to 
> psychopharmaceuticals) to function normally, and people with more 
> than a "reasonable" number of knife-fight scars, which might 
> indicate that someone is too rash or hotheaded. 
> 
> It also gets them DNA samples etc, which they can later use to 
> positively identify you if you ever get implicated in anything 
> criminal or controversial.  
> 
> And finally, they will wind up knowing all about your tattoos 
> and brands if any, which will point out people who were in certain 
> gangs and societies during certain time periods.  
> 
> That's just part of the job.  If you're going to handle secret 
> material for any government, that government will want to know 
> everything about you no matter how invasive, and they will want 
> to own every possible bit of leverage anyone can have on you, 
> and they want to be damned sure that no one else has any leverage 
> on you that they don't know about.  
> 
> Medical examinations are just one aspect of that.  
> 
> I bet they audit someone's taxes for the last six years before 
> they hire them, too.
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> 				Bear
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