USMC official: Marines should not be looking at leaked classified documents

[unhappycamper]

http://hamptonroads.com/2015/10/usmc-official-marines-should-not-be-looking-leaked-classified-documents

USMC official: Marines should not be looking at leaked classified documents
By The Daily News
Tribune News Service
© October 18, 2015

JACKSONVILLE

Service members, civilian employees and government contractors who view a recently published cache of classified documents containing intimate details of the controversial U.S. drone program could be putting their security clearance at risk, according to a Washington D.C. attorney.

“Just like with the ‘Wikileaks’ disclosures, individuals holding security clearances are technically not supposed to review the materials contained in the drone strike stories published by The Intercept,” Bradley P. Moss, a national security attorney in Washington, D.C., told The Daily News. “The leaked materials are still considered classified and viewing classified documents, to which clearance holders are not authorized access is again, technically speaking, a security violation.”

The new documents were published Thursday by The Intercept, an investigative news website co-founded by former Guardian Journalist Glenn Greenwald, who published the first classified National Security Agency documents from alleged whistleblower Edward Snowden. The reports highlight the U.S. drone program that has been operating in various countries throughout the world in conjunction between the Defense Department; the Joint Special Operations Command, which controls such units like Delta Force and SEAL Team Six; and the Central Intelligence Agency.

The documents leaked to The Intercept come from an anonymous source who allegedly still works within the United States government and sheds light on how the U.S. government targets suspected terrorists and adds them onto a “Kill/Capture” list or what is commonly known as a “Joint Priority Engagement List.”

[Scuba]

1. When US Service men and women are not allowed to read the newspapers, we're fucked.

[jeff47]

3. They can read newspapers, and people describing the documents

They can't read the documents themselves.

Just like the documents leaked by Snowden and Manning.

Security clearances mean you can't do a whole lot of things. Only being able to read coverage of the leaked documents isn't a large one.

[MisterP]

2. this time it's tragedy imitating farce