The employee fired after the FBI started investigating Walmart’s alleged monitoring of the emails and txt messages of a New York TImes reporter says he felt pressured to plug Walmart’s information leak:

“Our job was to plug any information hole,” Gabbard, a systems technician, said in the Journal. “That was the primary reason for our team to be there.”

Both Gabbard and his boss were fired. —MEGHANN MARCO

Fired Wal-Mart worker says he felt pressured: report [Reuters]
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