 | The Obama Administration Orders Federal Workers Not to Read WiliLeaks CablesScotty Starnes | December 4, 2010 at 9:07 PM | Tags: classified information, Department of Defense, do not read, Federal employees, federal workers, government contractors, Obama adminstration, Obama White House, Office of Management and Budget, WikiLeaks | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-3Hw |
The MOST TRANSPARENT ADMINISTRATION....EVER?
This administration takes it's time on the most important issues. Afghanistan, extending the Bush tax cuts, the economy. No big deal was made when WikiLeaks released their first batch of documents that exposed our soldiers and put their lives in danger but now that these leaks are exposing the Obama administration they move quickly to suppress the truth.
Ordering Federal workers to not read the WikiLeak document dump. Wow. Sounds more like a dictatorship than a free republic.
From the NY Times:
WASHINGTON — In a classic case of shutting the barn door after the horse has left, the Obama administration and the Department of Defense have ordered the hundreds of thousands of federal employees and contractors not to read the secret cables and other classified documents published by Wikileaks and news organizations around the world unless the workers have the required security clearance or authorization.
"Classified information, whether or not already posted on public websites or disclosed to the media, remains classified, and must be treated as such by federal employees and contractors, until it is declassified by an appropriate U.S. Government authority," said the notice sent on Friday afternoon by the Office of Management and Budget, which is part of the White House, to agency and department heads, urging them to distribute it to their staff
The directive applies to both government computers and private devices that employees or contractors might carry in their briefcases and pockets or have in their homes. It does not advise agencies to block WikiLeaks or other websites on government computer systems, a White House official said Saturday. And it does not prohibit federal employees from reading news stories about the topic. But if they have "accidentially" already downloaded any of these documents, they are being told to notify their "information security offices."
The Department of Defense, in its own directive to military personnel and icontractors, says that simply reading these documents, without proper authorization, will violate long-standing rules even though they are accessible to the public at large on Internet sites.
"Viewing or downloading still classified documents from unclassified government computers creates a security violation," a spokeswoman said in a statement on Saturday.
It's OK for the rest of the world to read the documents but the government doesn't want federal employees to read the WikiLeak document dump. Maybe this administration should have moved on Julian Assange after the first dump. Now that it involves secrets that damage the Obama administration, its time to restrict the truth. See no evill. Speak no evil. Hear no evil.
The effort, while understandable, seems entirely futile, said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Washington nonprofit group that has combated government efforts to keep certain government documents secret.
"It just may be a little too late for the government to push these documents down the memory hole," Mr. Rotenberg said, adding that his center did not support the initial public release of the material. "This is Orwell thought police in the age of the Internet, as these are already so widely accessible on servers around the world."The Library of Congress has joined in the push, blocked visitors to its reading rooms, or anyone else using its computer system, from accessing the WikiLeaks site, noting that "unauthorized disclosures of classified documents do not alter the documents' classified status or automatically result in declassification of the documents."
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