Posted on 07/15/2013 7:12:34 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
The Department of Homeland Security has warned its employees that the government may penalize them for opening a Washington Post article containing a classified slide that shows how the National Security Agency eavesdrops on international communications.
An internal memo from DHS headquarters told workers on Friday that viewing the document from an “unclassified government workstation” could lead to administrative or legal action. “You may be violating your non-disclosure agreement in which you sign that you will protect classified national security information,” the communication said.
The memo said workers who view the article through an unclassified workstation should report the incident as a “classified data spillage.”
The NSA is a Defense Department agency, meaning it does not fall under the jurisdiction of Homeland Security. It was not immediately clear whether all federal agencies released similar warnings to their employees. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Per the rules, DoD and DHS employees are not allowed to transfer classified information to their unclassified network/workstations.
The information in question is clearly marked. If someone views it with a browser, it will be loaded into the browser cache.
It's not hard to imagine that they do regular scans of the unclassified networks/servers/workstations to look for classified information that has inadvertently or intentionally copied to the unclassified side. My company does a regular scan of my laptop, although it is to look for unauthorized software.
These documents would be found by the scans, and flagged. And that would trigger a long process to investigate and remedy the "leakage".
Is this satire? Hard to tell these days.
yeah right - lmao
Agreed. But the silly thing...most everything that Snowden has spoken of....in a classified nature...won’t be declared open information for at least forty more years. Common sense is lacking here, and we will pay people to protect it like it was still secret, and that’s a terrible waste of time, money, and resources.
BOL!
Brings back old memories to 1965, when I was still on actitive Navy reserve status as a member of the Navy Security Group.
The film Bedford incident was released, and all of us still on active duty or reserve active status were told we couldn’t attend this movie in the DC area, nor to discuss it.
I took my wife to see its preview with the stipulation of no discussions between us, before, during and after the movie.
At the first showing, most of the audience was NSGers and their wives/girl friends and our ASA buddies.
There was a loud cheer and clapping in the movie theatre when the short and verboten scene of a NSG group working on the US Navy ship was shown in the movie. Some guys even stood up to cheer and clap.
The theatre was packed with enlisted and officers with 3 or 4 gold stripes, with a couple of Admirals, all officers were in their civilian clothes.
My reserve CO was there, his reserve CO and their wives. Afterwards, my CO joked that he could have called up his entire unit from those attending the no/no movie.
The Bedford Incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bedford_Incident - 47k - Cached - Similar pages The Bedford Incident is a 1965 Anglo-American Cold War film starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier, and co-produced by Richard Widmark
Wonder if this might have something to do with the big lesbo sis’s sudden resignation and upcoming move to Californicator land to really screw up the UC system as its gay/anti America leader of the UC system.
“Is this satire? Hard to tell these days.”
Most of the so called news from the Compost, NY Slimes and LA Slimes and of course ABCNNBCBS is false, DNC propaganda or satire.
The link below is for the thousands of DHS goons who monitor Free Republic to identify Freepers as potential terrorists.
Go to a library, use one of their computers and log on to:
Hillary’s FBI files was only the beginning. When al gore invented the internet, the deal was sealed.
God help us all.
I of course went right out and bought a copy. I still have it, but can't tell you about it. If you ask, I'll respond, "No Comment."
I filed a FOIA to the FBI and they eventually replied they could find nothing on me. Cheap bastards. The DoE granted me a Q after intensive questioning and some actual contact made regarding ‘moi’.
These days , one bad post on a social media site and your toast.. or .. a celebrity. Sick world we live in.. protected by those who swear oaths while they quaff beers and cigarettes.. and golf.
Glad to be under their radar.. I’d love to see the skinny on some of the riff Raff I ran into along the way.
“DIRNSA issued a written order to all NSA related military regarding the book, “The Puzzle Palace.” The directive was that if asked about the book by anyone, our response was to be “No Comment.” If pressed further we were to respond, “I have no comment on that subject.” Incidents were to be reported to the SSO.
I of course went right out and bought a copy. I still have it, but can’t tell you about it. If you ask, I’ll respond, “No Comment.”
Some younger members of our family gave me that book. They signed the inside front cover, and said, “No Comments, Papa!”
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