10.05.2014 - 12:44 [ Techdirt ]

Head-In-Sand Approach: White House Bans Current & Former Intelligence Staff From Discussing Any Media Leaks

The Obama administration continues to make incredibly ridiculous decisions in response to the whole Snowden thing. A few weeks ago, we wrote about new rules from James Clapper that banned intelligence community employees from interacting with anyone who was a reporter (or who just had a social media account) without first getting approval. And the latest is that Clapper has issued a new „instruction“ which effectively bars all intelligence community employees (and contractors) from even referring to public news reports about any leaks.