By Adam Levine
Our good friend at Time's Battleland blog got word from some readers that Battleland and apparently our Security Clearance page are no longer visible on Marines' work computers.
Battlelander Mark Thompson investigated, noting that other blogs are still viewable. As one Marine wrote to Thompson:
"Marines are encouraged to understand the world we serve in, and it comes across as clumsy and heavy-handed censorship when a site is blocked just a few days after an article like “What’s Wrong with the Marines?” is posted [on Battleland]."
Perhaps a coincidence. Marine Captain Kevin Schultz insisted late Sunday to Battleland that there was no blocking of the site and "I don’t know if this was a system glitch or something else."
Hopefully it it a glitch. If not, and you are trying to read Battleland and Security Clearance on your computer, request a waiver.
Read more about this on Time's Battleland blog.
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Why are Marines going on civilian websites like CNN while they are at work anyways??
seeing things in his own perspective
I am the Chief of the Cybersecurity Division and the Marine Corps Senior Information Assurance Official. I was informed of this issue on Sunday afternoon and immediately contact the MCNOSC Watch Officer to determine if the blogs were actually blocked, and if so, were they hosted on service providers that may have had security issues in the past, e.g., hosting malicious code or malicious activity. In actuality, Marines do have access to both blogs. As we said in our initial and follow-up emails yesterday, we validated that the Marine Corps Network Operations and Security Center (MCNOSC) was able to access the blogs from both an NMCI seat and a legacy network seat. Within a couple of hours we had confirmed access to these sites and responded with that information. Periodically there are sproadic glitches in our protection profiles that affect individual users. We have a process to rectify these glitches. I personally contacted the Marine who reported this issue and told him he should have access. If he didn't, I gave him some options to work with the NMCI vendor to have his system checked, as it could be a system setting on his office computer. Semper Fi! Ray A. Letteer
Good man, thank you for your post sir.
“September 11, 2001 seems destined to be the watershed event of our lives and the greatest test for our democracy in our lifetimes. The evidence of government complicity in the lead-up to the events, the failure to respond during the event, and the astounding lack of any meaningful investigation afterwards, as well as the ignoring of evidence turned up by others that renders the official explanation impossible, may signal the end of the American experiment. It has been used to justify all manners of measures to legalize repression at home and as a pretext for behaving as an aggressive empire abroad. Until we demand an independent, honest, and thorough investigation and accountability for those whose action and inaction led to those events and the cover-up, our republic and our Constitution remain in the gravest danger.”
- Lt. Col. Shelton F. Lankford, U.S. Marine Corps (ret)
http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2011/07/30/truth-crushed-to-earth-shall-rise/