Approval To Blog

[Dubh Aingeal]

Wired.com has obtained a copy of updated US Army rules (pdf) that force soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages without first clearing the content with a superior officer. Previous editions of the rules asked Army personnel to "consult with their immediate supervisor" before posting a document "that might contain sensitive and/or critical information in a public forum." The new version, in contrast, requires "an OPSEC review prior to publishing" anything — from "web log (blog) postings" to comments on internet message boards, from resumes to letters home. Under the strictest reading of the rule, a soldier must check with his or her superior officer before every blog entry posted and every email sent, though the method of enforcing these regulations is subject to choices made by the unit commanders. According to Wired, active-duty troops aren't the only ones affected by the new guidelines. Civilians working for the military, Army contractors — even soldiers' families — are all subject to the directive as well, though many of the people affected by these new regulations can't even access them because they are being kept on the military's restricted Army Knowledge Online intranet. Wired also interviewed Major Ray Ceralde, author of the new regulations, about why this change has been made.

[Homicidalheathen]

I totally agree with this. Don't want our secrets getting out. We are in a war, after all.

http://www.infowars.com/articles/iraq/data...ed_onto_net.htm

http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/2328

sigh.

[know_buddy_kares]

I honestly think this is the dumbest fucking thing they could do. Leave it to the military to pull this, ahem..."brilliant" shiny slimy atomic pollished shit into this existance. Restricting e-mails and blogs is a very big barracade on communication to others.. such as friends and family back home, with phone calls being limited and most often tapped already, there's only one alternative left, and that's snail mail, wich is slow and inefficient. It sounds more like a polititians shady maneuver to prevent communication between troops and civilians. Because of this type of communication, we found out that Jessica Lynch was NOT tortured or abused, rather she was taken very well care of, with the hospital staff trying to make contact with the us that they had her and wanted them to come get her. It also unfolded a real story how one soldier, "who died valiantly in a heroic fight aganced terrorists", actually was shot up in friendly fire (a military fuck up that has 2 seperate US military forces unknown who the other is, get in cross fire with one another as both think the other is enemy threat.) In a sence, it would be best effective in keeping our government's dirty little secrets about this "war" from reaching the public. I for one don't want to be told i cannot e-mail my immediate family if I chose to sign up in the military nor my friends for that matter. I do know that in order to maintain order, a soldiers lifestyle is vastly different than what we are used to, and some freedoms aren't held. While we live in a democracy, to a soldier, he's under a dictatorship to explain it best. Now the obvious being said about "classified, secret, even top secret information" being leaked. Any soldier that's in a mission that is classified as any of the previous 3 mentioned, has been fully briefed and knows full well. I would understand this if it was only being done in iraq, or to those who are in one of the classified zones, but it sounds like they're making it a rule to all soldiers. And with the patriot act in effect for us, it's looking like it's getting set up to hit us next perhaps, for they already mentioned CIVILIANS (contracted to do work on a base, married to a soldier, or child of a soldier) are under this SOLDIER'S rule, the newest addition to the UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice) that only military members strictly (Army, Marines, Navy, Air force, Coast Guard, National Guard, and reservists of any said branch of service) does this apply to. This is extending on civilians already. And lets not forget, it was Bush who leaked critical TOP SECRET information about the CIA Agent (forgot her name) wich If you wish me to in a later post, I can break it down to you exactly how that practically exposed the entire fucking CIA. I don't agree with what the CIA may do, however this still isn't a good move. This is the lowest disheartening thing I've read yet, however critical truth I'm glad I know.

[Blackmail]

I honestly think this is the dumbest fucking thing they could do. Leave it to the military to pull this, ahem..."brilliant" shiny slimy atomic pollished shit into this existance. Restricting e-mails and blogs is a very big barracade on communication to others.. such as friends and family back home, with phone calls being limited and most often tapped already, there's only one alternative left, and that's snail mail, wich is slow and inefficient. It sounds more like a polititians shady maneuver to prevent communication between troops and civilians. Because of this type of communication, we found out that Jessica Lynch was NOT tortured or abused, rather she was taken very well care of, with the hospital staff trying to make contact with the us that they had her and wanted them to come get her. It also unfolded a real story how one soldier, "who died valiantly in a heroic fight aganced terrorists", actually was shot up in friendly fire (a military fuck up that has 2 seperate US military forces unknown who the other is, get in cross fire with one another as both think the other is enemy threat.) In a sence, it would be best effective in keeping our government's dirty little secrets about this "war" from reaching the public. I for one don't want to be told i cannot e-mail my immediate family if I chose to sign up in the military nor my friends for that matter. I do know that in order to maintain order, a soldiers lifestyle is vastly different than what we are used to, and some freedoms aren't held. While we live in a democracy, to a soldier, he's under a dictatorship to explain it best. Now the obvious being said about "classified, secret, even top secret information" being leaked. Any soldier that's in a mission that is classified as any of the previous 3 mentioned, has been fully briefed and knows full well. I would understand this if it was only being done in iraq, or to those who are in one of the classified zones, but it sounds like they're making it a rule to all soldiers. And with the patriot act in effect for us, it's looking like it's getting set up to hit us next perhaps, for they already mentioned CIVILIANS (contracted to do work on a base, married to a soldier, or child of a soldier) are under this SOLDIER'S rule, the newest addition to the UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice) that only military members strictly (Army, Marines, Navy, Air force, Coast Guard, National Guard, and reservists of any said branch of service) does this apply to. This is extending on civilians already. And lets not forget, it was Bush who leaked critical TOP SECRET information about the CIA Agent (forgot her name) wich If you wish me to in a later post, I can break it down to you exactly how that practically exposed the entire fucking CIA. I don't agree with what the CIA may do, however this still isn't a good move. This is the lowest disheartening thing I've read yet, however critical truth I'm glad I know.

You're talking about Valerie Plame and she contradicted herself whether she was covert or not, and it was not Bush who leaked it, it was Scooter Libby. Plame's husband accused Cheney too but that wasn't proved. Cheney may have leaked it, she may have been covert but none of it was proven.

[know_buddy_kares]

You're talking about Valerie Plame and she contradicted herself whether she was covert or not, and it was not Bush who leaked it, it was Scooter Libby. Plame's husband accused Cheney too but that wasn't proved. Cheney may have leaked it, she may have been covert but none of it was proven.

well, bush unofficially gave cheney the OK to leak the info.