Whitehouse bans all federal employees from viewing Wikileaks material at home and work-ATS included, page 4


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reply posted on 4-12-2010 @ 07:17 PM by youdidntseeme
Originally posted by ommadawn

1.its only wikileaks that have broken the law here?

No. The information appears to have been stolen by someone else and handed to them so far as I understand it.
They (Wikileaks) are the Publisher of apparently stolen info.

2. the govenment has never broken the law and tryed to hide it?
I did not say that.

3. calls of asasination are against the human rights and hauge court rulings but ok for journalists?
Who is calling for that?

4. if evedence of a crime is discovered it must be reported or it is a crime but what happens if the govenment is the perpre trator of this crime?

Appears to be two issues in that question. So far as I know, a crime has been reported, and a named individual associated with that. Innocent until proven guilty of course. But the crime appears to exist and by all accounts the 'stolen data'. Evidence of that by inspection of the Public Domain record.

5. do you really beleive the govenment is above the law?
My beliefs a very personal and not for public discussion, such is my freedom of choice.


You are very much on point here. There is quite a list of who may be guilty of a crime here.
Whoever procured the documents has responsibility.
Whoever handled the documents has responsibilty.
Whoever publishes the documents has responsibilty.
As do federal employees who do not meet the security clearance.

Someone above me put it very clearly in a more everyday situation and I will repeat it here:

A thief takes all of your personal information from your laptop, including your SSN, name, birthdate, mothers maiden name, address, pictures of your children, your internet history, credit card numbers etc etc...

He then delivers them to me, and I proceed to publish the information to the world.
Am I innocent here? The thief is obviously guilty, but what becomes of me? And what becomes of the websites and news companies that then publish the information after me?


reply posted on 4-12-2010 @ 08:29 PM by marg6043
reply to post by pirhanna



Yes you are right, no only they are watched all the time, but even linking to anything that is not related to work will shut the computer completely and because to log in you have to use a card with your name is easy to see what you have been doing at your work station.

But at home is none of the government business what we do.


reply posted on 5-12-2010 @ 02:04 AM by abaddon6
reply to post by ExPostFacto



Laugh it's insane, its all over the news, you can read the cables word by word in several major newspapers.
"- No, you cano not read NYT or The Guardian, we blocked it in our firewall". China 2.0.


reply posted on 5-12-2010 @ 02:07 AM by NightGypsy
reply to post by DragonTattooz



Okay, I'm just as suspicious about the purpose of Wikileaks as the next guy, but dig this....

If these documents are truly "classified," then they shouldn't have been released to the general population to begin with. That being the case, why does everyone get upset at the idea that the federal government would forbid their employees to view these documents?

Would everyone feel better if they just did away with classified documents altogether and our government simply posted all it's intelligence, war strategies and diplomatic secrets on line for the entire world to look at? I think the federal government has a right to expect their employees not to engage in reviewing illegally leaked classified government documents.

Okay, maybe it's a prelude to something more sinister, but at face value, I think it should be expected they would require this of their employees.


reply posted on 5-12-2010 @ 03:33 AM by idealord
Not to defend this action in any way, and being somebody who believe Wikileaks is a great thing in the current media environment, this article does explain what's going on:

market-ticker.org...

If you have security clearance or want a job that requires security clearance, you're not supposed to go snooping around with things that are beyond your security clearance.

It's really pretty simple and is almost an honor system among employess of the Federal Government that have to deal with classified data.


reply posted on 5-12-2010 @ 05:41 AM by kosmicjack
Originally posted by IntastellaBurst

How would they even know if any employee's are reading these ??



Main Core

Now what will they actually do about it? I have no idea, but just when I think it can't get any more Orwellian in this country - it does.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

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