So an NSA employee gets caught trying to sell documents to Russia. You can read the FBI charges. Ok first, it sort of sucks that people are selling out their country for Russia. Money is awesome and 85K is a lot of money but that money can go quick! Doesn't really seem like such an incentive for such a horrendous act....maybe there was more motivation.
I wonder if people who fall prey to temptation in a way that cancels their oaths have serious debt or other issues that make them sort of soft. For example, maybe they are gamblers or have lots of other debt. I wonder what drives someone to sort of take that low amount and then in turn sell out their country? No amount of money can be worth your integrity!
What concerns me most is that people are willing to sell out everything for another country's needs. Especially a country we are in conflict with! As we move into the neuroeconomic choice of benefit and risk are they not considering how selling out one's nation will fundamentally change them the rest of their lives? It will be a stain on how that person views themselves; assuming they have normal psychological needs.
Either way a few questions sort of popped up in my head...
1.) Are they connected to a more important network? It likely means someone else got caught somewhere. Who or Whom?
2.) What other information has the person already passed on to foreign agents at other times?
3.) What type of protections/trips can the NSA put in place to uncover/discover these networks and highlight them for exposure?
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