US military banned from viewing anything related to wiki leaks

As if the troops didn't know the innocent people they were killing that they have to ban them from knowing about what they're already doing.

Another example of "American style freedom"

The Pentagon has banned the U.S. military from viewing anything related to WikiLeaks, the website for whistleblowers which controversially released thousands of classified government documents detailing the war in Afghanistan.

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told the Washington Times that all four services -- the Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard -- have told their staff that the site is off-limits.

In a memo obtained by the Times, the Navy told its employees: "There has been rumor that the information is no longer classified since it resides in the public domain. This is NOT true."

Meanwhile at the Air Warriors forum, a member by the name of "heyjoe" circulated an email on July 27 that allegedly came from an official military channel:

Yesterday, the media released information regarding a large number of documents containing U.S. national security information posted on a publicly available website called WikiLeaks...Personnel are reminded not to confirm nor deny information contained on the website. In addition, personnel should not access the WikiLeaks website on government owned systems, in order to avoid a proliferation of potential electronic spillages (ES).
The ban appears to include public and personal usage. In a memo circulated yesterday via another forum, the Marines Corps released this warning:

USMC Personnel (Marines/Civilians/Contractors) are hereby cautioned and directed to NOT access the WIKILEAKS website from a personally owned, publically owned or US Government computer system.

By willingly accessing the WIKILEAKS website for the purpose of viewing the posted classified material - these actions constitute the unauthorized processing, disclosure, viewing, and downloading of classified information onto an UNAUTHORIZED computer system not approved to store classified information. Meaning they have WILLINGLY committed a SECURITY VIOLATION.

 

you know if the miltary would take some Apache helicpoters over gang infested areas of the united states and light them up with a few AGM-114 I dont think we would see the gang violence we see today, cause all the insurgents are fucking DEAD!!.. I really dont get what your trying to accomplish OP..

 

Link please?

didn't think so.

 

When you are fighting a war, there are somethings you need to keep away from the enemy. In past wars the killing of civilians was an accepted method of bringing the enemy to the surrender table. However, in today's battlefield there are attempts to keep the civilian casualties as low as possible and hopefully at zero. The enemy does not care they will kill our civilians all day long because they know that it how we will weaken. In war you have to fight fire with fire. Had we conducted the two wars going on now as we did in WW2 these wars would have been over several years ago. But while we try to be the good guy in war our enemies aren't and most of the battles they fight are in public opinion. What this PFC did makes Benedict Arnold look like an altar boy. This misguided soldier not only gave aid and comfort to the enemy which is treason, he condemned a lot of our friends to death. There is nothing they can to do this traitor that will adequately punish him. The owner of wikileaks should be indicted as a terrorist and his site should be blocked so that no one can access it.

 

2 words: Hiroshima / Nagasaki... the end..

 

One word: Iran.



Atomic bombs are bad news.

(I agree with you overall, but I like The Gulf War as an example of military awesomeness)

Anyone else LOVE this?

 

perhaps the military should make some legislation about banning the weather - they will have more luck.

the purpose of the war in the middle east is to destroy america and retake the holy land.

it turns out the religious fanatics didn't need jehovah at all , all they needed was america.

another decade of these advisors and leaders and america will be sucked dry.

 

I really need a link from the least biased source possible before I can even begin to discuss this with you.

 

I wouldn't be as worried about the us military as I would the Canadians. They are fucking STRAPPED. 3 words. GANGSTA ASS NIGGAS