Submitted 6 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to globalnews@lemmy.zip
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/pentagon-limits-access-journalists-00574227
The unprecedented move is the strongest action yet in restricting how reporters cover the country’s largest federal agency.
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[Defense Department] information must be approved for public release by an appropriate authorizing official before it is released, even if it is unclassified
This is ambiguous, and can be applied to any and all information acquired through the Defense Department.
Officials indicated the move was needed because any unauthorized disclosure “poses a security risk that could damage the national security of the United States and place [Defense Department] personnel in jeopardy.
Isn’t this exactly what constitutes the need for information to be classified?
So ultimately, what is the purpose of letting journalists in at all? To give a false sense of transparency?
Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 6 months ago
If you hear a reporter say, “reporting from the Pentagon” or “my sources in the Pentagon”, we’ll know they are a sellout bootlicker and not to be trusted.