Cheer Up, It Could Be Worse!

 Sure enough, it gets worse:

Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have been fired or feel they could be soon, according to four people familiar with recent US intelligence on the issue and a document reviewed by CNN.

The intelligence indicates that foreign adversaries are eager to exploit the Trump administration’s efforts to conduct mass layoffs across the federal workforce – a plan laid out by the Office of Personnel Management earlier this week.

Russia and China are focusing their efforts on recently fired employees with security clearances and probationary employees at risk of being terminated, who may have valuable information about US critical infrastructure and vital government bureaucracy, two of the sources said. At least two countries have already set up recruitment websites and begun aggressively targeting federal employees on LinkedIn, two of the sources said.

I’m old enough to remember how appallingly cheaply Americans could be bought to turn over secrets to our adversaries. And the recently unemployed feel keenly the need for money. Any amount of money…and now it doesn’t even have to be done person to person, one at a time.

Is this a great country, or what?