
Photo credit: United States Army Garrison Presidio of Monterey
Presidio of Monterey employees on the base’s network are blocked from accessing parts of the news website that recently broke several stories on the National Security Agency’s data collection.
Limited access to The Guardian started shortly after the articles were released, according to employees across several departments.
Some of the site was still unavailable Wednesday — although the server granted access to the Washington Post and other newspapers.
Employees could go to The Guardian’s U.S. home page, www.guardiannews.com, but were blocked from reading stories, such as NSA articles, that redirected to the British site, Presidio spokesman Dan Carpenter said.
Yet, why the website remained largely unaccessible is a mystery.
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If it is intentional, all I can think of it might be due to the fact the instructors are foreign nationals who do not have clearances. Russian instructors are Russians, Farsi instructors are Iranians… And the students are members of or in training for military intelligence.
That some instructors may be foreign nationals without a clearance does not justify the blanket censoring of a well-renowned Newspaper.
Hope the reporter keeps the thread going on this to find out from where the action emanated. My hunch: Some mid-to-lower level official or officer who took it upon himself or herself to ‘punish’ the newspaper for daring to publish the original article.