{"id":682,"date":"2004-05-10T02:03:07","date_gmt":"2004-05-10T09:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/05\/more_idiocy\/"},"modified":"2004-05-10T02:03:07","modified_gmt":"2004-05-10T09:03:07","slug":"more_idiocy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/05\/more_idiocy.html","title":{"rendered":"MORE IDIOCY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>How about <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/article\/0,8599,634638,00.html\"\ntarget=new><B><EM><FONT color=#003399>&#8220;Military Personnel: Don&#8217;t Read<br \/>\nThis!&#8221;<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> As reported in Time: <\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>It&#8217;s not exactly every day that the Pentagon warns military personnel to stay<br \/>\naway from Fox News. But that&#8217;s exactly what some hopeful soul at the Department of Defense<br \/>\ninstructed, in a memo intended to forbid Pentagon staff reading a copy of the Taguba report<br \/>\ndetailing abuse of detainees at prisons in Iraq that had been posted at the Fox News web<br \/>\nsite.<\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P>There&#8217;s a copy of the <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/article\/0,8599,634637,00.html\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><EM><FONT color=#003399>Pentagon Email<br \/>\nWarning<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> on the Time Web site. This is how it goes:<\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY<br \/>\n<P>AUDIENCE<BR>All ISD Customers <\/P><br \/>\n<P>SUMMARY <BR>Fox News and other media outlets are distributing the Tugabe report<br \/>\n(spelling is approximate for reasons which will become obvious momentarily). Someone has given<br \/>\nthe news media classified information and they are distributing it. THE INFORMATION<br \/>\nCONTAINED IN THIS REPORT IS CLASSIFIED. ALL ISD CUSTOMERS SHOULD: <\/P><br \/>\n<P>1) NOT GO TO FOX NEWS TO READ OR OBTAIN A COPY <BR>2) NOT comment on<br \/>\nthis to anyone, friends, family etc. <BR>3) NOT delete the file if you receive it via e-mail, but<br \/>\n<BR>4) CALL THE ISD HELPDESK AT 602-2627 IMMEDIATELY <\/P><br \/>\n<P>This leakage will be investigated for criminal prosecution. If you don&#8217;t have the document and<br \/>\nhave never had legitimate access, please do not complicate the investigative processes by seeking<br \/>\ninformation. Again, THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT IS CLASSIFIED;<br \/>\nDO NOT GO TO FOX NEWS TO READ OR OBTAIN A COPY.<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Does the Pentagon look more and more like a dog chasing its own tail, or am I<br \/>\ndreaming?<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How about &#8220;Military Personnel: Don&#8217;t Read This!&#8221; As reported in Time: It&#8217;s not exactly every day that the Pentagon warns military personnel to stay away from Fox News. But that&#8217;s exactly what some hopeful soul at the Department of Defense instructed, in a memo intended to forbid Pentagon staff reading a copy of the Taguba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-b0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}