Whoopsie. That slide is classified out the wazoo and you probably don't have the clearance to see it. So you're supposed to call your local security asswipes, who will then probably come goose-stepping to your cube and confiscate your computer.
Which, in the reality based world, is stupid beyond belief. That slide (and these, which were redone because for all of their billions of dollars, the NSA makes ugly graphics) is out in the public domain, now. So a DHS employee can't look at the slide at work (or at home), but they can drop by a local Internet cafe or a library and see it there?
But that's nothing new. The DoD has been blocking the Guardian because they don't want the troops to be reminded that DasGov is Watching You!
This would be as stupid as if forty years ago, the DoD had cops standing in the doorways of Ft. Fumble to confiscate every copy of the NYT or WaPo that contained excerpts from the Pentagon Papers.
When the Wikileaks documents were released the same warnings were given to Federal employees -- "Don't go on the Internet and look at them, because you aren't cleared to see them!". Shades of Richard Nixon classifying the fact that we were bombing Cambodia -- despite the fact that it was no secret to the Cambodians themselves, or any journalists who cared to take the trip to Cambodia to see B-52's dropping bombs. It's not like you can pretend a B-52 is something other than a B-52, or hide it when it flies over in the sky, especially those old D and G models that smoked like coal-powered steam locomotives!
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