From the Open Society & Its Enemies Dept: Reporters are now officially classifed as "threats" to the U.S. Army

They revised the security guidelines, and just so happened to drop "the media" into a non-trad threat category, along with drug cartels and Al-Qaeda. As some have pointed out, they could use this to go after anybody seen talking to the press or even reporters filing FOAI requests.

What's even more fun is the powerpoint presentation given on this. "Don't Blog on Me" with bald eagle photoshoppery.

Exactly how much is left of the U.S. armed forces that isn't controlled by or stuffed with appointed soviet-style apparatchiks? I mean, it's one thing to have a rough & tumble or even borderline antagonistic relationship with the press, but to officially classify them as a threat to be guarded against is something else. When you have military types shutting down any feedback controls with oversight or whistleblowing, what kind of system are you left with?

At what point in America history will a majority of folks in power actually understand how that whole "well-educated citizenry" bit works & its function in representative democracy?