White House Tells All Federal Agencies To Prohibit Employees From Wikileaks Site [View All]

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http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/12/white_house_tells_all_federal_agencies_to_ban_empl.php

The Office of Management and Budget today directed all federal agencies to bar their employees from accessing the Wikileaks web site and its leaked diplomatic cables.

In an email to federal agencies obtained by TPM, the OMB's general counsel directed the agencies to immediately tell their employees to "safeguard classified information" by not accessing Wikileaks over the Internet.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/documents/2010/12/ombs-email-to-government-agencies-about-wikileaks-access.php?page=1

Classified information, the OMB notes, "remains classified ... until it is declassified by an appropriate U.S. Government authority." Employees may not view classified info over a non-classified system (i.e., the Internet), the OMB says, "as doing so risks that material still classified will be placed onto non-classified systems."

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The email includes a "model notice" for each agency to use. You can see the whole thing here.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/documents/2010/12/ombs-model-memo-to-federal-employees-banning-them-from-wikileaks-site.php?page=1