Posted on 08/01/2013 1:39:10 PM PDT by Nachum
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Army has ordered its personnel not to go to the latest postings on the website of the British newspaper The Guardian to read revelations of information given to its reporter because it contains a “TOP SECRET slide show.”
The email, which WND received from a Department of Defense source, was addressed to a couple hundred military personnel and civilians working for DOD. The source who provided the email asked for anonymity.
“Do not go to ‘The Guardian’ news website as they have TOP SECRET slide show on the main page and you will be flagged,” according to the writer from the 304th MIBN, or military intelligence battalion.
“If someone is not included on this email inform them this website is off limits,” the email said. “If anyone has visited this page today and clicked on any ‘NSA program’ slide show please inform me immediately. It is much easier fix (sic) an issue before it becomes a problem then (sic) after it becomes a disaster.”
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The Army has just ensured that all uniformed personnel will crawl across broken glass to read the piece.
“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” - George Orwell
And letting the Praetorian Guard discover the truth on their own? That’s treason.
I know they do stuff like this in communist countries, but this is America. Or used to be.
This is done under the same reasoning that a person with clearance is not allowed to go to wikileaks. Just because some one has a clearance you are not allowed to access classified information that you do not have a “need to know”.
DSS has issued the same warning to contractors.
Is it? Is the Flag the same one you were born under? Is the Pledge of allegiance the version you first learned? Is it really the same country, of does it just have the same name as a country you once knew?
Because no matter how high their clearance, they can’t be trusted with the truth? Gotcha.
Do not go to the public library with internet access. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. You will go directly to Leavenworth...
I don’t know about that. We have had high corporate people with clearances requesting tours of projects denied just because they have not has a “need to know”. I am not a robot, but I do have some personal experience in this matter and I don’t see a big conspiracy involved.
When stuff goes bad, it is vitally important to the regime that soldiers not know why they’ve been ordered to fire on American civilians, nor why those civilians are opposing the state.
You go to Ft Collins Co now. I had a FSO threaten to send me to Leavenworth all of the time and I told him it did not house the prison anymore. :)
You really would think so, right? Yet you are completely wrong. The vast majority of them WILL obey this stay-away order, and MOST will be creepily HAPPY to stay-away.
Further, they will disapprove of your decision to read it, even if you are a civilian. They will make the judgement that you are in THE WRONG for reading it. They will treat you vaguely like a hippy, or a pot-smoker, or some type of homo.
I live right next to a place that trains the people who will be working in this huge project, and that is how they are. If you even BEGIN to apprise them of what is actually going on, they will react with fear and suspicion.
There is simple compliance, which absolutely has always been a required part of military culture, but what I'm describing is much, much more than just that. I don't think that most of them have a problem swearing to "The Constitution" but knowing nothing about it, and what's more, constantly working to undermine it.
I think it's the bad civvy job-market, or the widespread adoption of anti-depressants, or a recent and growing trend to put ALL your personal info on some stupid facebook page (selfies, photos of your food, etc. etc).
I think people talk more and more about non-conformity but actually NEVER scrutinize bad orders, even those that will transform our free country into a digital dictatorship.
They are myrmidons for whom their latest cell phone and a steady paycheck are really all that is required for them to keep going, glassy-eyed and content.
I think you should ask Montana Joe about the sacred position of the holy “secret clearance”.
(MJ: No offense meant, I just remember you asserting that a Secret clearance trumps the constitution and the law [the particular scenario being that a secret-clearance individual being drawn into a conspiracy to assassinate was still bound by the security clearance and should-not/could-not report the crime].)
Most public libraries have internet access, is Army intelligence going to station MPs in every library in the country to ensure the edict is followed? The “UK Guardian” is an ordinary British newspaper not blocked anywhere in the USA.
Yeah. I know the guy that invented the system that protects our Jeeps and APCs from friendly fire.
The kicker?
I know he did it, and he doesn’t!
Here’s the link to the article in question:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data
That’s just foolishness once the “classified” information has been leaked to the public domain. It might have been top secret yesterday, but it’s not anymore.
The fact that it is publish in an open source is relevant. I am not here to defend the “logic” of DSS or the federal govt. All I have been told is not to go on Wikileaks or to access classified information on a “contractor’s machine”.
I want to be able to keep my clearance.
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