From the Washington Post:”
The federal government has been increasingly concerned about the ability of its own employees and contractors to use their positions to walk away with troves of sensitive information. And it has tried to implement new safeguards to not only better secure important data but monitor the people with access to it.
Fears over insider threats intensified after the breach by former Army Pfc Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, an NSA contractor working for Booz Allen Hamilton. But now with the revelation that Harold Thomas Martin III was arrested in August and charged with theft of government property and unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials, there will be even greater scrutiny of how the nation protects its secrets, officials said.
The allegations against Martin, 51, of Glen Burnie, suggest “that our counterintelligence abilities are still inadequate,” said Steven Aftergood, the director of the Project on Government Secrecy for the Federation of American Scientists. “And that the kinds of precautions that would be necessary to prevent removal of highly classified material are not in place. …It simply should not be possible to remove information from a classified system without supervision by somebody else. And evidently that kind of supervision was lacking here.”
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More at the Washington Post article below:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/nsa-case-highlights-growing-concerns-over-insider-threats/2016/10/06/61b90a5e-8bc7-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html?tid=pm_business_pop_b
