The key point is that PM May's beef is not with the press, which is what you insinuated.
Taking action against the leakers is like deciding to lock the barn door when the stolen horses have already been moved to another state. If you don't ensure discipline within the intelligence agencies, some of their actions may be worse than useless.
Originally Posted by Ex-CEO
We've got a big IT problem in the Federal Govt. They play by a separate set of rules than private industry. If you don't comply with different regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley your companies CEO could go to jail. Don't comply with different state and federal tax laws? Your CFO and many of the top CPAs could go to jail. Don't comply with the many records retention acts? People from all over the company could go to jail.
The top brass have to sign various compliance documents testifying compliance to various rules, regulations and reporting requirements. Failure to do so means SEC could start pulling licenses.
Do the Feds need to comply with a bunch of this? No. It's not because they are not a private entity. It's just because they have exempted themselves from the rules. Billions if not Trillions of dollars are unaccounted for and the Feds just go on their merry way.
The Feds need to eat their own dog food.