Posted on 06/09/2013 9:34:14 PM PDT by Beave Meister
President Obama has said the outrage over the federal government’s decision to monitor citizens’ phone activity is all “hype.”
He might want to share his opinion with the Air Force, which is ordering members of the service not to look at news stories about it.
WND has received an unclassified NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) that warns airmen not to look at news stories related to the data-mining scandal.
The notice applies to users of the Air Force NIPRNET (Non-classified Internet Protocol Router Network), which is the only way that many troops stationed overseas and on bases in the U.S. are able to access the Internet.
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Very well said. He left those people to their fates. He's perfectly capable of the same with anyone else in harm's way going forward.
One thing about telling 19-24 year olds NOT to do something...
As a Marine mom who keeps her son up to date on some things, it keeps him aware of the possibilities of repercussions due to the world view of the community-organizer-in-chief, and as he is always ready to go, he knows it could now be anywhere in the world.
Any USAF "leader" who defends this behavior by subsequently going on the attack against those who read about his treason is no different than the democrats conducting the treason.
They are showing their true colors by acting like this, and it's dangerous. These same "leaders" no doubt are the ones who attack military personnel for praying and going to church.
If Obama decides to go the way of Nicolae Ceaucescu, and open fire on the American people for defying Obama....
These "leaders" will be the ones giving the order to fire. Keep their names public, as they are certainly noteworthy.
Amen! I'm so thankful that my USAF days ended nearly a quarter of a century ago. I don't even recognize the "leadership" of this outfit...
Uh... I thought NOTAMs were regarding temporary flight restrictions and such... like as in you can’t fly anywhere within 100 miles of Martha’s Vineyard every other week when the first family is vacationing.
Military told not to read Obama-scandal newsThat's actually good because the ones who weren't really paying attention will want to know why they can't read it...and then read it out of curiosity.
You are mistaken. You need to retake the annual training. I just did mine.
I remember when the wikileaks thing happened with Manning that we were told the same thing, don’t even read a news article about it on the NIPRNET. In fact, all webpages about it were blocked from the NIPR.
It’s standard SOP. The problem is that if a news organization publishes classified information, and you are reading it on a NIPR and not a SIPR machine, well, that’s a big problem.
You can’t mixed classiifed and unclassified stuff on the same machine.
This is not unusual, The USAF was doing this years and years ago.
As I was told every year in my regular security briefings. It’s their computers, their Intranet, their Backbone, their RULES on usage. If you don’t like it, there’s the door.
Of course for the enlisted guys there was also that contract that bound them too. All in all I wouldn’t recommend a career in the Armed Forces today. A single hitch? Yes, the experience both good and bad is an eye opener to any young person going out into the big, big world for the first time.
I was thinking the same thing. When I got out of high school in 69 I went into the Army because I was tired of my parents telling me what to do, boy was that a wakeup call. Got off the bus at Ft Polk at about 2:00 in the morning and the yelling didn’t stop for 8 weeks. Then my dumb arse decided to go to jump school!
Obviously, adolf hussein doesn’t believe in the First Amendment; or in the rest of the Bill of Rights, either, for that matter.
Obama, being an anti Christ, always accuses his enemies of doing what he does. He's gotten away with it for a long time.
The notice applies to users of the Air Force NIPRNET (Non-classified Internet Protocol Router Network), which is the only way that many troops stationed overseas and on bases in the U.S. are able to access the Internet
Sorry but this is bullshit.
I am absolutely pro-military and an Air Force Veteran. The military like any employer has a right to restrict personal usage of its computer systems. And the statement that troops have no other access to the internet is childish..
Reminds me of John Wayne playing the cruiser Captain , “In Harm’s Way”, after his ship was torpedoed by a Japanese sub and he told his CommO to radio Pearl Harbor of the attack. The CommO responded, “Should we break radio silence?”, and the Duke replied, “I think the Japs know where we’re at!”
Once the classified material has been broadcast, it’s foolish to continue a charade that it is classified, for now it encumbers friendlies more to ignore it, than to revise their current estimates of the situation.
This policy manifests a far greater weakness in US defense strategy. Our leadership has moved towards centralized command and control and away from decentralized control. This means an enemy only has to focus on defeating the centralized control structures to defeat the nation. That’s easy. Attempting to defeat a decentralized control structure is never easy, but resource intensive, possibly draining the resources of an adversary.
That’s a good point, though I thought the NSA had declassified PRISM to show that it’s “not a big deal” or some such nonsense.
And children do tbe opposit of what you tell them, in that respect hopefully the USAF hasn’t grown up.
Eyewash my butt. That is all I will say.
Barack Obama to U.S. military personnel: “Don’t read anything about my scandals.”
George Washington: “When we assumed the solider, we did not lay aside the citizen.”
“That’s called envy.”
I know: read the sentence that followed that one. I had never heard any of the Marines I knew and respected pipe up with insults when another service was being discussed. The particular instructor who said that also spent most of one class talking about the best parts of the world in which to be stationed in order to have access to the best prostitutes. And he seemed proud that we students knew he cheated on his wife with another ‘soldier’ during the summer program. Things like this little by little turned me off a career in the military, not to mention the homosexual chickenhawk porn discovered in the desk of his colleague, which he just kind of shrugged his shoulders at.
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