Friday 16 October 2015

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

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.

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.” For the full article click here

 



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