6110C26 SHSpec-72  Security Checking -- Auditing Errors

     All the heretics the Catholic Church has had trouble with were produced
by the mechanism of incomplete confessions.  This is poetic justice, since the
Church buried most of the earlier knowledge that had been around.  So a sec
check, the very thing which is supposed to prevent dissension, upsets, and
slowed cases, if badly done restimulates a heresy of some sort which
eventually brings about an overthrow of the group, sooner or later.  The cycle
is that this overt, not being pulled, but restimulated, causes the PC to
lessen it by running down the target of the overt.  This is a new overt, which
then makes him also run down the group that failed to pull the withhold.  If
you fail to pull the withhold, you will get the effect of the succeeding
overts, as the PC makes nothing of the people who might find out.  This is
part of lessening the missed overt.  It also serves to make it such that no
one would ever believe those people if the overt ever does come out.

     The amazing thing is that the withhold, as it's pulled, transmutes from a
smoking volcano before it is pulled to a limp dead fish as it's gotten off.
So, if you start to release it but don't carry through, you've left the PC
with a live head of steam which will frequently explode.

     The way to have accidents with a dangerous object is to know it's
dangerous and not know how to handle it.  We've tended to tell students that
you can't do anything wrong with auditing, in order to inspire confidence, and
to a degree it's true, but now that we have accomplished a speed-up of getting
rid of the basic core of reactivity, we've paid for it with a loss of the
safety mechanisms of older processes, like conceptual processes, objectives,
etc.  Now we have to run things that make people pretty uncomfortable when it
is done wrong.  This is not permanent, but it can be quite uncomfortable at
the time.  Part of the trouble, too, is that the auditor can be looking very
pleasant, doing his best (though he has make GAE's) so that the PC, when he
finds himself looking awful, blames himself for it and feels it couldn't be
the auditor's fault, when in fact it is his fault.

     The common denominator of GAE's is some degree of no auditing done.
Where there have been errors, it is mostly incomprehension of auditing
directions.  Examples are leaving a withhold question unflat, doing a wrong
assessment or using a wrong assessment, running a prehav level until the TA
is moving and leaving it, failing to continue to sec check a PC as his case
advances.