Coast Guard Grapples with Unofficial Blog

Wired's Danger Room blog posted an item this morning about a memo issued by the Coast Guard's leadership forbidding its employees from posting messages concerning agency business on outside blogs. "The Coast Guard headquarters Communication Center (HQ COMCEN) is designated as the only authorized CG organization to post messages to the Internet," the message read.

The message was issued in response to the Unofficial Coast Guard Blog -- which Danger Room has called "awesome" -- which at times posts unclassified messages from the Guard's internal network. Danger Room wonders if this is a crackdown or something else. Peter Stinson of the Unofficial Coast Guard Blog says, "We'll just have to wait and see."