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There are 16 agencies in the intelligence community with each having different standards for outside employment. All federal agencies are required to have conflict of interest guidelines that set limits on employees’ outside employment. These guidelines are developed jointly by the agency and the Office of Government Ethics. However, the Director of National Intelligence has not issued intelligence community-wide policy guidance on conflicts of interest for outside employment. The lack of consistent guidelines leads to confusion among agency employees about what is permissible...
...arguing that federal employees cannot hold second jobs. The guidelines are designed to ensure that those jobs do not pose a conflict of interest to their government work. Intelligence community employees have many valuable skills that can be used in outside employment. My amendment ensures that they do not do so at the expense of the taxpayer...
...that the South Park creators face. To ignore that by substituting defense of that right with just a condemnation of violence is not only laughably impotent as a counter to terrorism, but also a legitimation of the threat itself. Indeed, the South Park controversy cast into stark light the conflict between terrorism and the freedoms that we in America hold dear, and in this case, terrorism prevailed...
...monthlong conflict between protesters and the Thai government exploded on April 10, when more than 20 civilians and soldiers were killed (and at least 800 wounded) in the worst political violence the country has seen in almost 20 years. The Red Shirts continue to press for the dissolution of the government led by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. On April 12, Thailand's election commission cited the misuse of campaign donations in its call for the ruling party to be disbanded...
...Army chief General David Richards countered with a swipe against "hugely expensive equipment" of the kind procured for navy use. The spat highlighted a fundamental problem for defense planners: nobody knows where future conflicts will erupt or what kinds of resources they will demand. Governments set the aspirations of their military according to best guesses. "We've got to think through much more carefully whether Britain should get involved in a foreign conflict, and if so, how to cope with the consequences," said David Cameron, the Conservative Party leader campaigning to win the upcoming parliamentary elections. "Britain will have...