Paranoid
Before the Snowden whistleblowing on NSA spying on all citizens, the Obama administration put in place the Insider Threat Program. McClatchy Washington Bureau reports described this as an "unprecedented initiative" to control public access to government information. According to documents reviewed by McClatchy, the program "pursues unauthorized disclosures of any information, not just classified material."
A key feature of the program requires Federal employees to turn in fellow employees suspected of the unauthorized release of information. This isn't spying or espionage. It involves ethical public servants releasing information for the public good. Leaking, as it's called, is a time-honored tradition from the White House to Congress to the bureaucracy. Now it is a felony to release this information or to fail to report suspicions about its release. The program turns the government into a nest of snitches.
What does Obama fear? Why is he so suspicious of anyone knowing what's really behind his policies? Is he verging on paranoia in this unprecedented level of control?
Obama certainly seems to be blowing it.
Obama was unable to control his emotional response to a perceived insult, Putin's refusal to turn Snowden over, thus trashing a major power meeting with the president of Russia.
Through the examination of objective evidence in the Egyptian change of government and the Syrian conflict, Obama has sympathized (Egypt) and taken the side (Syria) of violent political groups - the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda.
Obama's paranoid behavior regarding federal employees ensures snitching will become a major focus in the bureaucracy.
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outcome of continued petulant, erratic and paranoid behavior by the
president guarantees lousy government for the remainder of his term. If
he somehow gets away with this and positions Hillary Clinton as the next
president, we are in for more of the same or worse. If he's held
accountable with a negative public reaction, he'll usher in a Republican
candidate who will be even worse.
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