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Mar
18
As part of a security upgrade for security clearance Labor staff members have been asked about their personal life.
Quoting from the News Ltd article…
“MINISTERIAL staff in the Rudd government are being forced to list their history of sexual partners, reveal extra-marital affairs and detail homosexual experiences before gaining security clearance.”
Labor staffers quizzed on sex | The Daily Telegraph
thats crap
yay for being a greenie
This is a non-story. Asking about extra-marital affairs, homosexual experiences (and many, many other things) is standard security vetting procedure — and it rightly should be as long as there’s a section of society which frowns upon such things.
(Whether people should so frown is another issue, of course.)
Security vetting isn’t about finding out whether someone is gay or whatever. It’s about finding out whether someone has “secrets” in their life which could later be used to blackmail them into revealing classified material. It’s about finding out whether they’re honest. We’re all for honesty, yeah?
The security services don’t care if, say, someone isn’t monogamous — as long as it can’t be used against them.
I agree Stil, it’s a bit of News Ltd shock jock article. However i would like to know who collects the information and who has access to the information.
Well, if it’s security assessments for staffers of cabinet ministers, my understanding is that falls under ASIO’s umbrella. Only ASIO officers would have access to the raw interviews — though presumably in The Age of the Continual War on Abstract Nouns there’s some sort of intelligence-sharing arrangement with other agencies. Given how jealously they guard each other’s turf, I assume that’s in the form of processed reports, not raw intel.