US Air Force blocked more than a two dozen media websites

WASHINGTON: The US Air Force from its network has blocked more than two dozen media sites including The New York Times, that have posted secret American cables released unauthorized by whistle blower website WikiLeaks.

US Air Force spokeswoman Maj Toni Tones told Fox News, such a decision has been taken to avoid having “classified incidents on our unclassified systems.”

Tones informed, Among other sites that have been blocked include Germany’s Der Spiegel, France’s Le Monde, Britain’s Guardian and Spain’s El Pais. The process of blocking these websites began in August this year.

According to Fox News she told, “We work diligently to use our resources in the most effective and efficient manner possible. And blocking access to the WikiLeaks’ material diminishes our need to go through the labour and resource-intensive process of cleaning unclassified machines that have been compromised with classified materials.”