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I don't know if this is true and it probably isn't but I thought I would put it out there
since it is in the news
Air Force Bans Personnel from Reading News Stories Reporting NSA Scandal
http://exchangegoldforcash.com/money/u-s-government/president/2012-election/breitbart/air-force-bans-personnel-from-reading-news-stories-reporting-nsa-scandal/
The Air Force's 624th Operations Center sent an e-mail with a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) that prohibits them from accessing and reading news stories related to the current National Security Agency snooping controversy on the Air Forces NIPRNET (Non-Secure Internet Protocol Router Network) systems.
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The e-mail, first attained by Shane Vander Hart, President of 4:15 Communications, LLC, posted the memo on his site after receiving an e-mail from a mother whose son is stationed with the U.S. Air Force in the Middle East. The NOTAM warns airmen about the risks of simple web searches regarding the NSA and Verizon phone records scandal:
I wanted to make sure that all of you read this because just doing a simple search could jeopardize your future. In summary, anything to do with the recent news about the NSA and Verizon phone records are considered classified and searching news or records about these on our NIPRNET computers is unauthorized. Thanks!
I don't know if there is confirmation out there but I find it kinda useless that the Air force would issue this since it is all over the news
dkf
(37,305 posts)Hey good thing the USPS exists.
you got a point
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Of course, their searches and website visits will become a matter of permanent searchable records.
hmmmmmm.
lovuian
(19,362 posts)doesn't it
Life Long Dem
(8,582 posts)They won't miss anything.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)it's true, it's true... anybody who has clearance and is on secured computers across the government has received similar emails... reminding them that all this material is still classified, yada, yada, yada
Same shit different day with wiki leaks.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)elleng
(131,035 posts)classified' just ain't true, unless 'considered' classified is the same as IS classified, which would be pure horse pucky. IMHO
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)There's nothing ominous about this at all.
Now, if they banned the troops from readings stories about it while they're off-duty at homes and using their own computers, then I'd have a problem with it.
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)on these sights are still considered classified. While the general public and reporters are free to read, print and transfer them, those with a security clearance and the military are not. They are reminding them that they are still legally bound and that if an airman forwarded an article that contained a classified document (even thought it is on the internet) they are violating their oath about not giving classified info to those not authorized to receive it. Doubly so with those overseas, as it is also marked US eyes only. While it's a technicality, they're merely saying, "hey we have this weird situation where classified docs are in public view, but that doesn't change the law."
Also, the NIPRNET is for work so they don't have any expectation of privacy. Pretty much every employer has regs regarding use of work computers.
rugger1869
(106 posts)nm
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023020776
lovuian
(19,362 posts)I think the point that these are classified even though they are in public view is the point
but then it follows ....why are they still classified?
since they are in public view
the Government should think about declassifying them since the jig is up
Are they going to prosecute the Guardian like they prosecuted Wikileaks ?
formercia
(18,479 posts)should not think for themselves.