Military authorities want to keep Marines in the dark
One would have thought that -- of all people -- Marines should be as fully informed as possible
"Many people have heard of the website WikiLeaks, a document sharing website where anyone can contribute leaks of sensitive governmental, corporate, organizational, or religious documents anonymously. …
Despite the fact that the information is now available to the general public, the information is still classified.
‘We’re just trying to get the word out to everyone and prevent service members from ruining their careers over this,’ said Michael Miglionico, the information assurance manager, Marine Corps Bases Japan. ‘Luckily so far we’ve had no reported incidences.’
Viewing or downloading these documents without the proper security clearance and authority can result in a variety of repercussions from non-judicial punishment to court martial, loss of clearance and denial of reenlistment.”
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Military bureaucracy at its craziest
4 comments:
In the United States just because classified information is in the public domain (such as available over the internet) does not declassify it and those who work for the government and its contractors must treat it as classified. The truly ridiculous part is that you have to take the information to an official classifier to find out if it is classified since most people do not know so it is a prosecutorial nightmare to prove the person knew that the information was classified. It is basically a minefield with no reliable map so unless you know the extent of it the mere mention is enough to keep those concerned with their career far away.
Glock 20
"Despite the fact that the information is now available to the general public, the information is still classified."
That the info is "now" available doesn't mean the world has a right to view it. Because American communist spies stole our atomic bomb secrets in WWII, didn't mean the info was no longer top secret, and classified. That case, (the Rosenbergs) as this one, is still espionage, and the offenders should be dealt with in the same manner. As for members of the US military who are involved, they are traitors and should be shot. Publicly.
While this may be a sign of American tolerence, the world, especially the Muslim world, sees it for what it really is. American weakness.
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Some day, perhaps, the American people will awake and realize that we live in a world that views our style of compassion and tolerence as weakness. And the more we display those faults, the more wars we'll have to fight. Also, the harder we force others to live as we say they should, the more enemies we'll have. And, with what this current administration is doing to America, we can no longer beat them all.
If we don't start looking at todays world realistically, we will not last.
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