{"id":137947,"date":"2014-08-21T20:01:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T20:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=137947"},"modified":"2014-08-22T00:27:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T00:27:21","slug":"u-s-military-blocks-employees-investigative-news-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/u-s-military-blocks-employees-investigative-news-site\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Military Blocks Employees From Investigative News Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\"><em>RINF Alternative News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>According to a report from <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Glenn Greenwald&#8217;s news website,<\/span>\u00a0The Intercept, the\u00a0Pentagon has banned its staff from visiting the website.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_137948\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-137948\" style=\"width: 658px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-137948\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/docscreen.png\" alt=\"A portion of an email (redacted and slightly altered to protect the source) sent to staff last week at a U.S. Marine Corps installation directing employees not to read this web site.\" width=\"658\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/docscreen.png 658w, https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/docscreen-75x29.png 75w, https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/docscreen-150x59.png 150w, https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/docscreen-383x150.png 383w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 658px) 100vw, 658px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-137948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A portion of an email (redacted and slightly altered to protect the source) sent to staff last week at a U.S. Marine Corps installation directing employees not to read this web site.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Writing for the website, journalist Ryan Gallagher states:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A\u00a0notice has been circulated to units within the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps warning staff that they are prohibited from reading stories published by\u00a0<em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">The Intercept<\/em>\u00a0on the grounds that they may contain classified information. The ban appears to apply to all employees\u2013including those with top-secret security clearance\u2013and is aimed at preventing classified information from being viewed on unclassified computer networks, even if it is freely available on the internet. Similar military-wide bans have been directed against news outlets in the past after leaks of classified information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>A directive issued to military staff at one location last week,\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #cc0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/1276886-us-military-letter-banning-the-intercept.html\">obtained by\u00a0<em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">The Intercept<\/em><\/a>, threatens that any employees caught viewing classified material in the public domain will face \u201clong term security issues.\u201d It suggests that the call to prohibit employees from viewing the website was made by senior officials over concerns about a \u201cpotential new leaker\u201d of secret documents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/eartotheground\/item\/pentagon_forbids_soldiers_and_staff_to_read_the_intercept_20140821\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RINF Alternative News According to a report from Glenn Greenwald&#8217;s news website,\u00a0The Intercept, the\u00a0Pentagon has banned its staff from visiting the website.\u00a0 Writing for the website, journalist Ryan Gallagher states:\u00a0 A\u00a0notice has been circulated to units within the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps warning staff that they are prohibited from reading stories published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,461,17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-137947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-editorials","9":"category-politics","10":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}