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...conducting probing interviews that elicit indications of psychological and integrity problems. In the past, background investigators, generally retired FBI agents working on contract, rarely went beyond the subject's hand-picked character references. This practice was sharply criticized by the Webster commission, which also faulted the background unit's checklist mentality and failure to analyze contradictory answers. Senser says the revamped security teams will develop their own sources and "look at the whole person - to try to get at what makes this person tick...
Even Jauer, a die-hard Texan who hangs a state flag that flew over the capitol in her room, says that being a debutante is more than an item on her social checklist. A major reason why debuting in Fiesta meant so much to her was the meaning behind the celebration. “It’s a part of me,” she explains. “It’s unique and it’s fun and it’s something that people from all over the world come...
Rather than asking Harvard’s outsourced workers for an extension on sending them their long-awaited checks and back pay, the Office of Human Resources simply eliminated the box for “Wage and Benefits Parity Policy completed” on its online checklist and replaced it with two separate boxes. One, labeled “Wages and Benefits Parity policy has been drafted,” had a nice red check in it while the newly added “Administrative Council signs off on Wages and Benefits Parity policy” remained empty, failing...
...Looking beyond the checklist...
...Perhaps the FBI's most creative post-Hanssen reform is a new analytical unit whose mission will be to look for subtle behavioral clues that may hint at a very guilty conscience. The old-bureau culture was caught up in a "checklist mentality," says Senser, and because Hanssen didn't fit the standard "booze-broads-bills" profile of an espionage suspect, none of his colleagues or supervisors pieced together the wildly disparate parts of his personality. He was racking up computer security violations, experiencing fits of anger and paranoia, spending more than he made and proselytizing even...