US Army restricts access to Guardian website over secrets in NSA leak stories
The US Army confirmed on Thursday that access to The Guardian newspaper’s website has been filtered and restricted for its personnel. The policy is due to classified documents described in detail in the stories. Gordon Van Vleet, spokesman for the Army Network Enterprise Technology Command, or NETCOM, said in an email to the Monterey Herald that the Army is filtering "some access to press coverage and online content about the NSA leaks." The spokesman said the procedure was routine part of "network hygiene" [Newspeak/1984/Orwell] measures to prevent unauthorized disclosures of sensitive information. In a later phone conversation he clarified that the filtering was “Armywide” rather than restricted to some US Army facilities.
Monterey Herald: US Army Blocks Soldier Access to Guardian Website