Scott Vernick appeared on Fox News' The O'Reilly
Factor on June 21, 2013, to discuss the U.S. government's
Insider Threat Program.
Following recent revelations of security leaks of highly
classified information, public interest has grown surrounding the
Obama administration's Insider Threat Program, which cracks
down on security leaks by requiring federal employees to keep close
tabs on their co-workers. The O'Reilly Factor
interviewed Vernick about the program and its implications for the
workplace.
"There's no doubt that, for the past couple of years,
the Obama administration has been encouraging government workers to
be highly sensitive and highly attuned to things that go on in the
workplace which might ultimately be a threat to national
security." But, Vernick said, "The administration has a
real problem. You have Bradley Manning, you have [Edward] Snowden
and others before them, like Jonathan Pollard. You have five
million people today who have access to
