Matthew Feeney
Reason.com
4/22/2014
Last month Director of National Intelligence James Clapper signed a directive banning the employees of some government agencies from discussing intelligence-related work with the media…
…In the directive “media” is defined as “any person, organization, or entity” that is “primarily engaged in the collection, production, or dissemination to the public of information in any form, which includes print, broadcast, film and Internet” or is “otherwise engaged in the collection, production, or dissemination to the public of information in any form related to topics of national security, which includes print, broadcast, film and Internet.”
In an email, the Government Accountability Project’s national security and human rights director, Jesslyn Radack, rightly points out that the directive “is a clear extension of the executive branch’s war on national security whistleblowers.”
This latest action is a clear extension of the executive branch’s war on national security whistleblowers. It is a grotesque twist for James Clapper to limit public knowledge about government activity when he himself has been responsible for lying to Congress and misleading the public about the government’s overreaching mass surveillance programs…
The complete article is at Reason.com. At the site there is a copy of the directive and a video of Sen. Ron Wyden’s exchange with Clapper.
Update: Office Of Director Of National Intelligence Misled Congress About Contacts With Muslim Brotherhood
Newly declassified documents obtained by the Clarion Project show that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) misled members of Congress in 2012 about its involvement with Muslim Brotherhood-linked entities.
Further, the documents show that there were even a number of internal communications within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence expressing concerns about the Brotherhood links of these entities…
