WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite the ongoing shutdown and yesterday's shooting near Capitol Hill, the U.S. government has apparently still found time to send out an internal e-mail to all federal and military employees reminding them that they are banned from seeing the upcoming Wikileaks film The Fifth Estate.
The government is enacting the ban due to the film's use of classified documents and other protected material.
"Whether you're at work, at home, or in a theater with hundreds of people, that doesn't change your responsibility to protect classified material and avoid unauthorized disclosure," reads the joint memorandum by the Office of Personnel Management and the Department of Defense. It was sent out to the entire federal government and U.S. military on Friday morning.
"Personnel seen in theaters may be prosecuted for unauthorized disclosure and viewing of classified information in an unauthorized medium in a non-secure facility," the document warns.
