U.S. Air Forces have locked their employees’ access to sites containing documents published by Wikileaks, including sites of three major newspapers, said on Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the Air Force.Office of Management and Budget at the White House has already prohibited federal employees and contractors to access classified documents available on the website Wikileaks and other sites via computers or mobile devices.
Major Toni Tones said the Air Forces have blocked access to over 25 sites, including Wikileaks and the three newspapers that are available from American diplomatic notes – New York Times in the United States, The Guardian in the Great Britain and Der Spiegel in Germany.
“This decision is consistent with the directive received in August 2010 that Air Force personnel must not access the Wikileaks site to read and download classified information,” said Tones.
The other sites are not necessarily related to Wikileaks, but have not said Tones nor were able to explain their blockade.
But some analysts see no logic in blocking access to documents that are currently available to the public.
“It seems quite an absurd protest,” said legal expert on issues of CNN, Jeffrey Toobin. “The enemies can see our documents, but not those we trust to defend our country,” he said.