Posted on 12/03/2010 4:51:20 PM PST by An Old Man
From DemocracyNow:
The U.S. State Department has imposed an order barring employees from reading the leaked WikiLeaks cables. State Department staffers have been told not to read cables because they were classified and subject to security clearances. The State Department’s WikiLeaks censorship has even been extended to university students. An email to students at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs says: "The documents released during the past few months through Wikileaks are still considered classified documents. [The State Department] recommends that you DO NOT post links to these documents nor make comments on social media sites such as Facebook or through Twitter. Engaging in these activities would call into question your ability to deal with confidential information, which is part of most positions with the federal government."
Got that?
If you're a student and access this material, you could be barred from any Federal employment.
And by the way, this is not just university students.
I am aware of (but have not until now reported on) a series of "all-staff" memos that have gone out to all employees of a number of firms that do business with the Federal government, including some classified work, warning that any access to Wikileaks including on personal computers wholly owned by the employee at their home constitutes an event that may result in them being fired and/or having their clearance revoked.
Needless to say if you have a clearance (and need it to do your job) and it's revoked from an employment perspective you're immediately screwed employment-wise.
This is not limited to one or two firms - it is a widespread and perhaps even government-wide threat.
Do not believe for a second that people cannot figure out that your computer is in fact your computer and that any sort of "obfuscation" of your identity will be effective. Reliance on such claims is very foolish.
I have repeatedly caught people who have been banned on my forum and think they're "anonymous" as a consequence of surfing through a proxy or other means of obfuscation of their identity.
It is frequently possible for me to prove to a degree of certainty that I'm sure would meet at least the standards of evidence in a civil court that the machine involved in the second access is in fact the same computer that was used in the first.
I won't tell you how I do it, but I assure you that I, as a person of reasonable levels of skill in the "dark arts" of Internet processing, am able to do so.
I am absolutely certain that the spookworks folks are similarly competent should they have reason to investigate such a circumstance, and as such these threats must be taken seriously if you are, or ever contemplate, working in a position where access to classified information may be part of your job.
Let’s have a book burning party.
Quite the irony here.
The State Department issues an order to its employees that they are forbidden to read the cables they may have created.
Only Obama could be so screwed up.
Thumb-drive + Local Library w/ internet = ???
Never mind the man behind the curtain; we’ll tell you when and what to believe in!
“And break radio silence sir?”
Gritting his teeth Wayne replies; “Don't you think the Japs know where we are by now?”
The next thing to come from the government truth machine will be someone telling us that “the Dollar is as Good as Gold”.
OMG
Insanity truly reigns!
What has struck me about this latest batch of leaks, is that the government seems more worried about the average citizen reading them then the enemy.
Boy these people are truly NVTZ!
I’m reading this a little differently. This was issued by the department which Hillary is the head. By making it very pointedly that this is classified info, it begs the question as to why then the Obama admin did nothing to shut down Wikileaks, since it appears he had every legal justification to do so.
From the info released it looks like one objective was to embarrass Hillary. This almost looks like a countermove on her part to minimize the damage to her and throw it back on Zero.
Hillary is planting a seed.
Perhaps that is because they view the average citizen as the enemy, or at least as a [very dangerous]* potential enemy.
Why do you think that people protesting both the gropedowns and the pornscanners are [possibly] being tagged by the DHS as “domestic extremists”?
*Very dangerous because they can blend-in with the rest, or even worse convert other citizens to his cause.
In fact by sending around an official announcement stating that the information is classified the US government has violated its own “no-comment” policy, the purpose of which is to avoid calling attention to information that is classified.
This is so blatantly unconstitutional that it’s mind boggling...
Kind of what I was thinking. It seems more and more as if the average citizen is the enemy to the elites.
Something is up with this.
The boot of American Fascism on our necks.
Remember when Geithner Elite told the Chinese students that Treasuries were a safe investment - and they broke out laughing! This government will lie about anything and everything.
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