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US Military Bars Access to News Site Reporting on Leaked Govt Secrets

The new investigative reporting website The Intercept has been declared a no-go zone for U.S. military personnel, according to sources and an internal memo which was obtained by the site’s journalists and published on Wednesday.

Founded by billionaire Pierre Omidar and investigative journalists Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept—since its launch earlier this year—has published numerous reports based on NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden. More recently, its journalists have exposed other government secrets—including never before seen documents related to the US terrorism watch list—that may have been provided by a separate government whistleblower concerned about the ever-widening reach of the national security state.

On Wednesday, The Intercept‘s Ryan Gallagher reported:

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Though military censorship is nothing new, the continued pattern of blocking government employees from reading or accessing information that has been placed in the public domain demonstrates the culture of secrecy that permeates such institutions.

As Jon Fingas, an associate editor at the technology news site Engadget writes:

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