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.
Welcome to the New Fascist States of America
You stole my comment.
The Chinese Communist Party must be blushing.
knobs the lot of them, hahaha, I'm soo enjoying this
Is the United States a Republic or an Empire? This is an attempted information junta by the political and those employed in the Federal Government to protect their jobs, nothing more. We already see the New York Times, and Washington Post censor the information. Are they so dumb, that they believe their own lies. They are trying to make Afghanistan like Egypt. A country that is not democratic, but under the fold of the current Administration/future Administration and the small minority that wants to keep power in the US.
The state department is gonna make the students an offer they can't refuse…..
This screeching and wailing and impotent flailing really is wondrous to behold – however a check of the body count is perhaps in order:
All WikiLeaks have done is to make available raw files. The collateral damage resulting from this action has been highly amusing and instructive to observe – but of zero cost in human life.
These raw files demonstrate on the other hand however that the collateral damage caused by the USA as a direct result of all they do behind the scenes to covertly manipulate the world order in their own image – has been incalculable in terms of death destruction and misery
The astonishing establishment reaction of assassination demands from politicians, broadcasters, entertainers and other assorted portentous pundits – is simply sickening – and leaves the rest of the world in wide eyed disbelief of just how far the ruling class and community at large is removed from reality. Please tell me why they don't get it?
Well, seems that the Communist Elite are showing their teeth!!….. think now will be consider a crime!!
What the heck is this?! We have a constitution that guarantees free speech in this country. These people in our government are working and paid for by us. Trying to intimidate people from reading information about our elected government and appointees operating subversively, secretly and against the law or constitution, things our own press should should be reporting, is unAmerican, gestapo-like, like a fascist dictatorship. These people should read the first ten amendments, called the Bill of Rights.
"Move along, folks… Nothing to see here…"
The lines are being drawn. Crimethink or free speech. Fear or resistance. Totalitarianism or individualism. Dystopian stories have truly come alive in America.
Indeed. As they have been since the Patriot Act.
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
– James Madison
Good. I don't want to work for the corrupt Federal government.
The first American who is indicted for looking at these documents needs to resist and begin the fight for our nation. The line in the sand may now be drawn. All patriots need to be willing to step up and do their duty. The first American that ends up having police come after him can count me on his side. Where do you stand?
Rise up for FREEDOM
Those who control the flow of information will control the masses. Those who don't submit will be re-educated or silenced.
But, that's just this old Curmudgeon's opinion…
The US had to end up like this. This totalitarian streak was actually a seed that only needed the right environment and the right caretakers. Everything began with Bush, the moron, and has continued douwnhill since then. The wars have made it worse because the military and everything having to do with it is now holy. Nobody can say anything against the criminals in Afghanistan, Iraq, and so on because you can end up in Guantanamo or even worse you could become a statistic in the war against "terrorism". What do the citizens in the US can do in view of this? The problem is that those aware of what is going on are very few. The majority are so brainwashed that they are probably beyond any hope.
Verey simple solution. Stop buying NT, Newsweek, WP & other government run media. Stop watching Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS and other media putlets. Stop lestining to Rush, Hannity and the rest of the chicken hawks. You can put them on their knees after you shut the money tap from the sheeple. Stop paying taxes. File special claim which entitles you for big refunds. You accountant can help you for $$$ 300 lousy bucks. The whole world is down already. People are hardly surviving to eat. Now the Globalists targeting US Citizens on the open. People are led to the slaughter house. Wake up before it's too late.
The land of the free, ladies and gentlemen!
Just stopped my account at Pay Pal
“The truth hurts…but the lie never does.” And that’s why the rapacious, gluttonous, expansionist, snakes that control this corporatocracy treat us like mushrooms. They keep us in the dark and feed us nothing but shit. Every last one of them should share the fate of Saddam Hussein. Hang ’em. And put it on t.v. for the whole world to see.
Come on establishment. Make it unhappen! Down the memory hole, all of it.
Hmm… I foresee a new business in T-Shirts with Diplomatic Cables on them meant to liquify the eyes of Federal Employess and poor, innocent Columbia U students.
What is that picture of Obama in the middle of article?!
The wolves in sheeps clothing in Washington are on the run. They can run but they can't hide. We know who they are, what they have done and we won't forget.
This is our country and have a right to know everything the USA government is doing.
That is freedom and a right under the constitution.
Dr Bob
Professor of International Law
Yes slaves , don't exercise that First Amendment right.
This is phenomenal. Are we going to start burning books, round up people and make them disappear? Like the whole TSA groping thing, we cannot allow this to stand. Little by little, our freedoms are being taken from us. This is death by a thousand nicks. We must stand up for our liberties.
Implicit here is the threat that the government is monitoring the web surfing habits of college students. If that doesn't encourage them to instead support WikiLeaks, i'm not sure what should. BTW, they may want to start protecting their Internet anonymity by using onion routing technologies such as that provided through free and open source projects like the Tor Project ( http://www.torproject.org/ ).