{"id":20985,"date":"2010-10-28T06:33:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T10:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20985"},"modified":"2010-10-28T07:53:45","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T11:53:45","slug":"dod-wants-to-scan-service-members-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20985","title":{"rendered":"DoD wants to scan service members’ emails"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an effort to foresee events like soldier suicides and the shooting spree committed by Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood, the Pentagon provided $35 million to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) so they can develop a way to scan emails of service members according to CNN<\/a>;<\/p>\n

“Each time we see an incident like a soldier in good mental health becoming homicidal or suicidal or an innocent insider becoming malicious, we wonder why we didn’t see it coming,” DARPA says. “When we look through the evidence after the fact, we often find a trail — sometimes even an “obvious” one. The question is: Can we pick up the trail before the fact, giving us time to intervene and prevent an incident.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that sounds good, but privacy concerns aside, someone tell me what the politically correct military will do with this information. The FBI had emails between Hasan and radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki that should have raised flags and perhaps prevented the Fort Hood shooting spree, but the FBI didn’t even warn the Army about it. <\/p>\n

Of course, Hasan was making noises in his unit to commanders and supervisors that should have raised flags, too. So, given all of things they want to accomplish with this new system, the Pentagon and the military still failed. Throwing money at a problem and developing a new whiz-bang won’t do anything unless they correct their personnel problems first.<\/p>\n

This is like the TSA strip searching 80-year-old women. They want to act like they’re doing something, but the whole process is more about appearances than actual security. Unless they overcome the political climate, it’s just an exercise in mental masturbation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an effort to foresee events like soldier suicides and the shooting spree committed by Nidal … DoD wants to scan service members’ emails<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}