Time: "It's not exactly every day that the Pentagon warns military personnel to stay away from Fox News. But that's exactly what some hopeful soul at the Department of Defense instructed, in a memo intended to forbid Pentagon staff reading a copy of the Taguba report detailing abuse of detainees at prisons in Iraq that had been posted at the Fox News web site."
Apparently, the Senate has its share of idiot bearcats, too.
"Please advise your staff not to download and/or print the report from the Internet," Mike DiSilvestro, director of the Office of Senate Security, said in an e-mail quoted by the Washington Post. "They should review official copies that you obtain through normal channels. Staff should inform Members that, despite its public appearance, the report remains classified."
"DoD still considers the report classified," he adds, "so we do not want classified reports on our unclassified systems, or printed versions floating around outside classified document control systems.
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