Army Blocks Guardian Website: Report
The United States Army has blocked access to The Guardian’s website on computers across the organization following that site’s publication of leaked National Security Agency documents, according to a report from the Monterey Herald.
Gordon Van Vleet, an Arizona-based spokesman for the Army Network Enterprise Technology Command, or NETCOM, told The Herald that the Army had filtered “some access to press coverage and online content about the NSA leaks.” The restrictions had been made Armywide, he said.
The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald first published information about the NSA’s surveillance practices in early June after receiving leaks from former security contractor Edward Snowden. On Thursday, he released new documents showing that the NSA had collected U.S. citizens’ email records in bulk for more than two years under President Obama.