Only In Washington

See no evil:

WASHINGTON — the Obama administration and the Department of Defense have ordered the hundreds of thousands of federal employees and contractors not to view the secret cables and other classified documents published by Wikileaks and news organizations around the world unless the workers have the required security clearance or authorization.

Somewhere, deep in the bowels of Washington, someone has a real sense of humor.

It gets better:

Classified information, whether or not already posted on public websites or disclosed to the media, remains classified, and must be treated as such by federal employees and contractors, until it is declassified by an appropriate U.S. agency.

Gad. Classified information released to the public by any means, becomes PUBLIC information.

Anybody who thinks otherwise, or thinks that the released information will not be read by any government employee or contractor because they were told not to, seriously needs a reality check.

The government needs a new file cabinet, one labeled:

PREVIOUSLY CLASSIFIED CRAP RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC

Give me a break. My sides are starting to hurt from all the laughing.