Gen. Richard B. Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met with Mr. Rumsfeld on Thursday and Friday and finally recommended that the nonemergency defense employees and their families be evacuated from Bahrain.
Such precautions were in response to reports that major infrastructure industries lacked basic defense against hacking (including one embarrassing/terrifying example of missile defense employees downloading malware from porn sites).
Nearly 75% of the state's aerospace and defense employees work in the aircraft engine manufacturing sub-sector; only Connecticut has larger aircraft engine workforce.
It sets a dangerous precedent not just for defense employees, but also intelligence agents and pretty much anyone who comes into possession of classified documents.
Describing the challenges of his job, the first responder recalled one morning when he and other civil defense employees watched the government helicopters buzzing like insects in Aleppo's sky.
The relationship may be comparatively true for enlisted military personnel but is unlikely to be true for defense employees and contractors.
The United States government did not immediately identify the victims, but they included a Department of Defense employee, three service members and the Foreign Service officer.
Daniel Ellsberg, the Department of Defense employee who leaked the Pentagon Papers and whose psychiatrist's office was unsuccessfully burglarized at the direction of Nixon aides in retaliation, noted that Manning has received a harsher treatment in the courts than he did.
She introduced legislation to extend whistle-blower protections for defense contractor employees and for employees of contractors working with the intelligence community.
It was an impressive defense of employee rights.
