Gates of Vienna has reported, based on an email from a reader, that a number of conservative websites have been blocked within the United States Department of Interior.

The reader wrote:

Here's a quick runthrough of what I've found so far at work. You'll see hat its pretty one—sided.

Blocked Blogs:

Captain's Quarters

Cox and Forkum

Gates of Vienna

Little Green Footballs

Michael J. Totten

Michelle Malkin

Power Line

Protein Wisdom

Rantings of a Sandmonkey

Roger L. Simon

The Adventures of Chester

The American Thinker

The Belmont Club

The Doctor is In

Wizbang

Blogs not blocked

DailyKos

Democrat Underground

America blog

Atrios.blogspot.com

JuanCole.com

The Huffington Post

Talkingpointsmemo.com

In fact, every blog linked to off of DailyKos seems to work.

It is hard to know what to make of this. The site 186k per second speculates that it may be an internal hack by a nutroots guy.

Dirk Kempthorne, the Secretary of Interior, should look into this today. If it reflects policy, then the policy ought to be changed. if it is a hack, the miscreant should be identified.

Thomas Lifson   10 12 06