"Can the government PLEASE make sure that the only information journalists are allowed to receive is whatever the White House press statements say? THANK YOU GOVERNMENT"

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    What gets me about it is that all classified shit is need-to-know. Government healthcare records are classified at the Secret level. In my old hospital, I couldn't access some on different wards. There were secret squirrel patients that didn't come up in my system at all despite them being right in front of me. Despite theoretically having access to everyone seen at any federal/military hospital, if I searched for any VIP without them being my patient the access attempt would be immediately flagged for review by government monitors who can see everything I did with my ID card-linked computer.

    This guy is a 21 year-old lower enlisted national guardsman. Even if he's in military intel, why does he have access to files about multiple regions instead of explicitly mission-related ones cleared by the people in charge of him? With every keystroke logged and search monitored, how did that not come up for the same kind of review? He has so much more access to information than I'd expect.

    • JuryNullification [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      There’s a specific website on the high-side internet that’s basically Wikipedia. I assume it was something stupid like that. A guy I knew when I was in would show me drone footage of guys peeing in ditches and fields like it was the funniest shit.

      (I never had access to it)