Technical author leading resistance to background checks at NASA

[Gene Kim-Eng]

I doubt that this is going to go anywhere.  Government 
investigators are not violating Constitutional rights by 
going out and digging into peoples' personal information
without probable cause or their consent.  The consequence
of refusal to authorize the checks is that the employees are
now deciding not to agree to the revised terms of their 
employment.  There's a pretty good chance that the
enhanced background checks will be a useless and
expensive government boondoggle (it is, after all, the
government, and they specialize in that), or that the data
collected may be somehow misused or carelessly 
handled resulting in someone getting their identity 
stolen, but until/unless that happens, there probably
isn't any case.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
> She seems like a smart lady. I'm inclined to agree that she knows what
> she's doing.