Ahhh... "Managing risk"... Back when the Falklands Chinook went in that included ordering people not to discuss the probable cause with the bereaved lest it embarrass Boeing.
Alright, it wasn't an order as in "is to/are to" but everyone clearly understood that there were dire consequences for doing so... That's an order in my book, that fact that it was stated in the way it was makes it even worse.