Pentagon bars journalists from its press office, saying it has become a 'classified space'

https://www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/military/pentagon-bars-journalists-from-its-press-office-saying-it-has-become-a-classified-space

"The Pentagon Press Office has been redesignated as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility due to speechwriters from the Office of the Secretary of War sharing the facility," Valdez wrote.

"These speechwriters routinely handle classified material … as a result, journalists will no longer be permitted to enter the office space. There's nothing controversial about that."

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BigMacHole@thelemmy.club · 15 pts · 110d (1 reply)

Transparency!

-Republicans!

FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 110d

Republicans would use a superlative.

"Most transparent administration in history!"

Trump never disappoints("the most not disappointingest"): https://youtu.be/4H9kHLsX_aQ?t=22

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 110d (1 reply)

Pentagon bars journalists from its press office

Military intelligence

sapetoku@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 110d

Military intelligence

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Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app · 11 pts · 110d

Just get the info from the signal chat instead.

AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 110d

Ummmm... does anyone else see this as a dangerous escalation?

TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 110d

What's wrong ... was their office in the East Wing previously ?

FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 110d

"These speechwriters routinely handle classified material … as a result, journalists will no longer be permitted to enter the office space. There's nothing controversial about that."

This must be the first administration who's speechwriters handle classified material...

Estiar@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 110d

As we know, the pentagon has a shortage of SCIFs. They just had to take the press office

rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 110d

So they just gonna sit in the press conference and talk to themselves?

kibblebits@quokk.au · 2 pts · 110d

I thought they did that last year?