
Free “Hema”
The Huffington Post’s Matt Sledge reports about a security training test created by an agency of the US Defense Department called the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), which gives a profile of a hypothetical Indian American woman (named “Hema”) and, based on rather typical characteristics, instructs trainees to consider her a high security threat: A security training test created by a Defense Department agency warns federal workers that they should consider the hypothetical Indian-American woman a “high threat” because she […]
Categories: Civil Rights • Tags: Defense Information Systems Agency, Hema, Indian American, Matt Sledge, National Security Agency, Racial profiling, The Aerogram, The Huffington Post, United States Department of Defense