By Rick Maze, The Army Times
A key Senate committee wants a full explanation by Sept. 1 about why Internet access has been limited for deployed troops, including to such popular Web sites as MySpace and YouTube.
The Senate Armed Services Committee did not, however, go so far as to order Internet access restored.
Instead, in its report on the 2008 defense authorization bill, the committee says it is concerned that the mid-May decision to prohibit troops from using U.S. government computers to access 13 Web sites hurt morale, even if defense officials ordered it to preserve bandwidth on military computer systems and to protect operational security.
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