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James Clapper Bans Intelligence Community From 'Unauthorized' Media Contacts

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Two months after promising a new era of transparency at the nation's intelligence agencies, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has slammed the door on media access with a sweeping new order last month that bans nearly all unauthorized contact with reporters.The intelligence community directive Clapper issued on March 20 applies to all "contact with the media about intelligence-related information, including intelligence sources, methods, activities, and judgments," regardless of whether they are classified. Violations will be handled at a minimum as a security violation and may be referred to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution, according to the memo.
The directive states that its purpose is "to mitigate risks of unauthorized disclosures of intelligence-related matters." Covered agencies include the CIA and National Security Agency.
Clapper quietly issued the directive last month in a move first reported Monday on the Federation of American Scientists' Secrecy News website.
The nation's leading newspaper trade group said the directive appears to be a worrying end-run around Congress, where controversial efforts to pass a similar banwere dropped in 2012.


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Well so much for bringing that new era of "transparency to our intelligence services" :roll: Clapper should of gotten the boot or resigned a long time ago for essentially lying under oath. Time for you to go bud.
 
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Well so much for bringing that new era of "transparency to our intelligence services" :roll: Clapper should of gotten the boot or resigned a long time ago for essentially lying under oath. Time for you to go bud. [/FONT][/COLOR]

I believe our federal Congress should have to justify wartime tax rates to the electorate of the United States, to exercise war time powers.
 
Read more @: James Clapper Bans Intelligence Community From 'Unauthorized' Media Contacts

Well so much for bringing that new era of "transparency to our intelligence services" :roll: Clapper should of gotten the boot or resigned a long time ago for essentially lying under oath. Time for you to go bud. [/FONT][/COLOR]

I don't have any problem with this, actually. If you work for HP, you can't interview with the press as representing HP; and you'd better damned well not divulge potentially damaging or proprietary information to your buddy with the Washington Post. I'd think this stuff goes without saying really.

What this means, as I read it, is that one can most certainly still share their information with WAPO, as an example, but he may lose his job. Not a bit unlike Corporate America.
 
I don't have any problem with this, actually. If you work for HP, you can't interview with the press as representing HP; and you'd better damned well not divulge potentially damaging or proprietary information to your buddy with the Washington Post. I'd think this stuff goes without saying really.

What this means, as I read it, is that one can most certainly still share their information with WAPO, as an example, but he may lose his job. Not a bit unlike Corporate America.

Which rules out that "Transparency" Clapper the liar, was promising.
 
Not at all. Transparency should come from the top -- not agents in the field. Much ado about nothing.

Really? I wonder hows that worked out in the past? No wonder we need whistleblowers because it essentially never happens.
 
Clapper works directly for Obama, ya know?

Yes i know. And pretty much you can draw an inference from my post that his promise of transparency was a ploy and he really had no intentions of bringing transparency to the federal government espeically in area of inelegence.
 
Just how much transparency do you think you are entitled to from the intelligence community?? Honestly, I don't know what people expect. Ridiculous.

Abuses, more openness especially in areas of more records (DRONEZZZZ), more accountability from Freedom of Information Requests. Remember a democracy doesnt function well without a good digging press. So far that press has been shut out of the picture.
 
Yes i know. And pretty much you can draw an inference from my post that his promise of transparency was a ploy and he really had no intentions of bringing transparency to the federal government espeically in area of inelegence.

Why don't we hear you crying about Obama, then?
 
Abuses, more openness especially in areas of more records (DRONEZZZZ), more accountability from Freedom of Information Requests. Remember a democracy doesnt function well without a good digging press. So far that press has been shut out of the picture.

So you think that, in the past, the intelligence community could share classified information with the press? You think that they could divulge proprietary information to their buddies in the newspaper business?

What planet are you from and how long do you plan to visit?
 
So you think that, in the past, the intelligence community could share classified information with the press? You think that they could divulge proprietary information to their buddies in the newspaper business?
A lot of the classified information is essentially classified because its covering up wrongdoings done in the intelligence community....

What planet are you from and how long do you plan to visit?
What that i think reports should have the right to interview who they want? To investigative reporting? Hell most journalists if they uncover something that will endanger lives dont print that ****. Its called journalistic integrity or the "journalistic code". But do I want a deep digging, good press corps. Absolutely. I guess that would make me from America?
 
A lot of the classified information is essentially classified because its covering up wrongdoings done in the intelligence community....


What that i think reports should have the right to interview who they want? To investigative reporting? Hell most journalists if they uncover something that will endanger lives dont print that ****. Its called journalistic integrity or the "journalistic code". But do I want a deep digging, good press corps. Absolutely. I guess that would make me from America?

People are still going to talk to the press. Talk to the press. No email trails. Information will still get out. Whether the leaked information serves us or hurts us rather depends, don't you think? As to firing them? Why the hell wouldn't they? If a grunt decides to be the next Snowden, I hope they fry his ass.

If you're a cop, and you talk about an ongoing case to the press? You're in deep ****. Our intelligence community should be different??
 
I don't have any problem with this, actually. If you work for HP, you can't interview with the press as representing HP; and you'd better damned well not divulge potentially damaging or proprietary information to your buddy with the Washington Post. I'd think this stuff goes without saying really.

What this means, as I read it, is that one can most certainly still share their information with WAPO, as an example, but he may lose his job. Not a bit unlike Corporate America.

The difference being, corporate America is not beholden to the tax payers.
 
People are still going to talk to the press. Talk to the press. No email trails. Information will still get out. Whether the leaked information serves us or hurts us rather depends, don't you think? As to firing them? Why the hell wouldn't they? If a grunt decides to be the next Snowden, I hope they fry his ass.

If you're a cop, and you talk about an ongoing case to the press? You're in deep ****. Our intelligence community should be different??


When exposing gross corruption, incompetence, and downright espionage AGAINST the American people?




Absolutely.


If we lived in a country with a government by the people, for the people, I'd agree with you 100%. If only.
 
People are still going to talk to the press.
Sure.. Whats your point?

Talk to the press. No email trails. Information will still get out. Whether the leaked information serves us or hurts us rather depends, don't you think? As to firing them? Why the hell wouldn't they? If a grunt decides to be the next Snowden, I hope they fry his ass.
I dont see where you went with these questions or statements....


If you're a cop, and you talk about an ongoing case to the press? You're in deep ****. Our intelligence community should be different??
So you think if the media was given more access to the NSA then its going to up the floodgates to decalssification of everything and NSA employees talking to the press left and right about what ongoing spying activiies they are doing?
 
A lot of the classified information is essentially classified because its covering up wrongdoings done in the intelligence community....


What that i think reports should have the right to interview who they want? To investigative reporting? Hell most journalists if they uncover something that will endanger lives dont print that ****. Its called journalistic integrity or the "journalistic code". But do I want a deep digging, good press corps. Absolutely. I guess that would make me from America?

Where do you get the idea that reporters won't report on things that put lives at risk. Do you have any idea how many tactics, techniques and tools have been comprised by the media in the last 12 years of war. When that happens the ability for us in the military to do our jobs gets that much harder and more dangerous. Most reporters could care less as long as it gets them a headline.

Unless it is a case of clear illegal activity it is not up to some lower level individual to decide if the information should be released. Often times they don't even know the whole picture and can't judge the consequences of their leak. As far as I am concerned all those folks who talk off the record because they are not authorized to talk to the press should be looking at jail time or the very least a loss of their clearance.
 
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