White House Warns Government Workers on Calling Up WikiLeaks

[Lars77]

Source: Bloomberg

The Obama administration said federal employees and contractors shouldn’t call up classified documents, including those posted by WikiLeaks.org.

In a memo today, the Office of Management and Budget, said the WikiLeaks disclosures damaged U.S. national security and warned that the documents remain protected.

“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,” the memo said.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-04/white-house-warns-government-workers-on-calling-up-wikileaks.html

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Welcome to China.

[leveymg]

1. Citizen! That information is FORBIDDEN! Get back to work!

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH!

[newfie11]

2. agreed!! N/T

[MrMickeysMom]

17. Exactly...

Not only is he watching you, he's freezing your small salaries and daring you to defy him.

So, go ahead and DO IT.

[redixdoragon]

18. When was the last time we were ever called citizens?

We're all consumers now to these people.

[leveymg]

21. By Peter Weller in Robocop - 1987. ;-)

"Thank you for not smoking."

[tomm2thumbs]

3. DO NOT LOOK AT THE NEWSPAPER - that news is Classified!!!!

what a bunch of idiots - seriously. Idiots.

[No Elephants]

4. Um, "First Amendment" ring a bell?

[Downwinder]

5. Heard about it when I was a kid.

Is it still around?

Thought it went away with Hoppy, Red Ryder, the Lone Ranger, and the rest of the good guys. Remember, the bankers were always the villains.

[laconicsax]

23. Is that the one about guns? n/t

[howard112211]

6. So they are revealing themselves to be enemies of our constitution.

[flyarm]

8. I heard we have a President that is a Constitutional Lawyer..or scholar of some sort...correct?

could fool me!

[kgnu_fan]

11. Resume can say anything, performance is another thing

[InkAddict]

28. but only once...hehehehe n/t

[molly77]

12. So they are revealing themselves to be enemies of our constitution

with no back up plan. We have heard for years that if WE have nothing to hide, WE should not have a problem with our emails being read, phone conversations being monitored, and illegal search and seizure.

The Emperor with no clothes is being exposed. It goes one way..the transparency thingy. So WE are a totalitarian state. I think Fascist.

[Kaleko]

26. The Emperor class with its perpetual war machine is enraged

that its weak spots are being exposed here and there. Fascist, you betcha!

[Violet_Crumble]

7. Don't US govt departments have filters that block 'inappropriate' sites?

I would have thought Wikileaks would have been added to that list really quick. Even here in Australia, I'm betting that when I go back to work next week in a govt department, Wikileaks will be blocked. Not that I'd use the work computer to visit it, seeing as how everything we visit is logged. I'm not that silly. I use my own laptop with mobile broadband :)

[naaman fletcher]

9. "federal employees should be less informed than average citizens"

Smart policy guys

/sarcasm

[Lars77]

16. 1984

Average citizens: Proles
Federal emplyees: Outer party
Dems, Reps: Inner party

[Amonester]

24. It's just like everything else the Professional Losers who surround Obama do

FUBAR, with his blessing (since he rarely opposes what they want or do).

[kgnu_fan]

10. You have entered the Land of Fear

[cstanleytech]

13. I'm really not sure if the ostrich approach is the best one to be making

but here is an idea, how about improving the security on stuff that really "does" need to be kept secret while being more open to the public and not lying by hiding stuff (including criminal acts) under the claim that its a "state secret" so often.
Yeah i know its a radical idea but I just thought I would throw it out there.

[lunatica]

14. You are forbidden to believe what your eyes tell you you're seeing dammitt!

The word 'bizarre' and Alice in Wonderland pop into my mind

[SoapBox]

15. Welcome to China 2010...uh, I mean America.

...or it could be Russia, the old East Germany, Iran...take your pick
of countries and regimes that sit on their citizens.

Creepy what we have become.

[mbperrin]

20. Yep. I'm 58. I never dreamed I'd live out my days in a totalitarian

kleptocracy.

My grandkids are the ones who will never know what living in a free country is like.

Sad.

[Poll_Blind]

19. PLEASE station troops outside the New York Times. After all, they're the ones printing it!!

Do ya have the balls to do it, mistah?

PB

[eilen]

22. In Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson

Federal employees were required to show their loyalty by working long hours, working from home, subject to loyalty inquisitions involving truth serum and torture. They were also spied upon.

[StarsInHerHair]

25. gee whatever happened to Obama standing WITH whistle-blowers? ooops

that was campaign-mode.........I see they're using the old Soviet "national security" lie.

[cbdo2007]

27. Have none of you had a real job before??? ALL COMPANIES limit what internet sites

the employees can visit. This is nothing new. My old job even use to block CNN because they had an advertisement on it with a girl in a bikini once, so it would get blocked and the warning read, "BLOCKED - PORNOGRAPHY".

My wife at her job can only literally visit a handful of sites, everything else is blocked. Even DU is blocked at many work places because it's a time waster, not because they're trying to control anyones "free speech" (though this isn't a free speech issue at all).

[Lars77]

29. Are you serious? nt

[ibegurpard]

30. at work of course

correct me if wrong but I believe this warning is extending to their own personal equipment and time

[BuelahWitch]

31. But they're also telling them not to access from home either

And some poli-sci college students at Columbia University were told they shouldn't access them if they want a gov't job in the future. This to me is REALLY creepy!

[Alamuti Lotus]

32. "the land of the free??? -- whoever told you that is your enemy!"