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Title: State Dept Warning Students Not to Read, Share WikiLeaks OR Citizens ---- Ignorance Is BLISS
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Published: Dec 4, 2010
Author: http://news.antiwar.com/2010/12/03/state
Post Date: 2010-12-04 09:24:09 by tom007
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State Dept Warning Students Not to Read, Share WikiLeaks Spokeswoman Says Commenting on WikiLeaks Not a Good Move for Any Citizen by Jason Ditz, December 03, 2010 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Columbia University’s Office of Career Service is said to have passed around an email warning students that if they read WikiLeaks or make comments related to the releases it would render them ineligible for any government jobs in the future, based on a warning sent by a former student working at the State Department. State Department spokeswoman Nicole Thompson insisted the warning wasn’t an official Department directive but added that making public comments or posting links to WikiLeaks content wasn’t “a good move for any US citizen.” Efforts across the US government to restrict access to the documents are having limited success, although Sen. Joe Lieberman (I – CT) did succeed in getting the WikiLeaks website removed for a few hours following a threatening phone call to Amazon.com. Beyond the State Department, the US military is also said to be trying to curb access to the content among active duty personnel, with attempts to visit any media website from the military’s open network resulting in a warning message not to read anything related to the WikiLeaks release. The Social Security Administration has also sent an alert to all its employees warning them that reading anything related to the WikiLeaks release could subject them to “federal criminal statutes for unlawful access to or transmission of classified information.” Even the Library of Congress is getting into the game, with attempts to visit the website at the Library resulting in a warning that the site is “malicious content” and has been blocked.
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#19. To: tom007, all (#0)
I find that statement offensive in the extreme. Any REAL American should find it so as well. It is not now, nor has it ever been, in the Constitutional purview of any agent of the Federal Government to suggest or even hint that reading something disapproved of by Der State could or legitimately should be of concern for any citizen. To even make a suggestion such as this is obscene filth of the rankest kind. I find it more offensive than the lowest basest pornography. Ms. Thompson has just made it a duty of any American to seek out and read what is in the Weakeyleaks material. And of course that may be the real intent of the comment since Weakeyleaks IS a Propaganda PsyOp. However, that this little twit felt it even proper to offer such is an offense which should result in her immediate dismissal and that of any officer in a position of trust who authorized that statement.
I find that statement offensive in the extreme. Any REAL American should find it so as well. It It is nothing less than a threat from the state. Nicole should be fired, along with her supervisors - all the way up to Hillary.
#45. To: Original_Intent (#40)
Geeeez man, how about a warning or something?
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestState Department spokeswoman Nicole Thompson insisted the warning wasn’t an official Department directive but added that making public comments or posting links to WikiLeaks content wasn’t “a good move for any US citizen.”
#38. To: Original_Intent (#19)
posting links to WikiLeaks content wasn’t “a good move for any US citizen.”
#40. To: tom007 (#38)
Nicole should be fired, along with her supervisors - all the way up to Hillary.
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