Well, at least not a formal education from a legit accredited university or college.
Gov't Workers Got Fake Diplomas
SPOKANE, Wash. - At least 135 federal employees, including a White House staff member and National Security Agency employees, bought bogus online college degrees from a diploma mill, a lawyer in the case against the mill operators said.
Some of those who paid thousands of dollars for phony diplomas include a senior State Department employee in Kuwait and a Department of Justice employee in Spokane, defense lawyer Peter S. Schweda said Wednesday.
The bogus degree purchases by the federal workers were revealed Wednesday during a U.S. District Court status conference for five defendants in the case against the mill, The Spokesman-Review reported Thursday.
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Material provided to the defense by the Justice Department shows at least 135 government employees bought college or university degrees to use in seeking promotions or pay raises, Schweda said. The phony diplomas came from such places as St. Regis University, James Monroe University and Robertstown University.
There's so many things wrong with this story that just jump out at me.
1. White House Staff using fake diplomas to get a job/promotion/raise.
2. NSA employees using fake diplomas to get a job/promotion/raise.
3. Nobody did a background check?
If these people can penetrate some of the highest security areas of our country, mainly our center of government as well as our center of national security, and we don't know enough about these people to know that they used fraud to obtain documents to get them where they are, are we even sure of who these people really are?
What's to say they didn't stop at fake diplomas and continued on with fake ID's, fake social security numbers, fake countries of origin, fake security clearances, etc?
What's to say one of these NSA folks isn't siphoning classified information to terrorists overseas? How do we even know these people are truly qualified to perform the tasks they are in charge of? And lastly, how are we supposed to believe our government can actually keep us safe when they don't know important key details about their own employees?
Unbelievable.