Pentagon bars journalists from press office
The Pentagon redesignated its press office inside the Washington headquarters as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, and Pentagon press secretary Joel Valdez said journalists may no longer enter the workspace. The SCIF designation restricts access to cleared personnel and officials cited classified material handled in the office as the reason for the change. The move forces reporters to request appointments for interviews and constrains routine, in-person reporting on Defense Department operations and policy, limiting public visibility into military matters.
The Defense Department has designated its press office as a classified space, off limits to journalists, further restricting interactions between its public-facing representatives and the reporters assigned to cover the military.
Tom Levesque16"Gentlemen, you can't do journalism in here. This is the press room!"
WookieeTaint11Guess we'll have to get in on his Signal chats.
Just J10so much for the "Most Transparent Administration Ever" huh?
papillonjaune77.bsky.social6This is what authoritarian regimes do.
Now3The propaganda office is now open!!
This 'transparency' is killing freedom of the press.
GoonerInSoCal2They don’t think of themselves as serving us. They’re our rulers.
The Pentagon says its press office is a SCIF now. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
ubi cedunt, vincere se appellant14Just remember kids, war plans on Signal? A reporter can mingle. Ask questions in the Pentagon? That’s classified, son.
Cereal For Dinner6The people who planned an attack from the coat closet at Mar a Lago?
Cath RN, PhD5Hegseth really getting paranoid. Sometimes, paranoia can signal underlying mental health issue(s). But, it can also stem from an alcohol use disorder. He rages, fires ppl left & right, hates women, especially Black women, says & does crazy shit. His 🚂’s off the tracks. He needs rehab & therapy.
PRE-FLIGHT CHECK IN: TWO THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED WE AHOULD BE BOTHERED BY 1. The Pentagon has declared its press office as a classified information facility massively limiting public access to military news. You don’t need me to tell you that’s not a good thing on so many levels. 2. The US is to
The Analyst126deactivate the entire ocean monitoring network. These deep sea buoys and sensors measure sea temperatures and currents. They have been vital in understanding the seas, climate change impacts, ocean currents, salinity, storm generation and more besides. It’s against the US’s own military interests,
dverhoeven.bsky.social12The movie idiocracy was unfortunately a glimpse into our timeline. We are living it.
woodwizard.bsky.social2I don’t believe in capital punishment. But these guys really do deserve to die. Not by human hand, but some top draw schadenfreude. An immense warming driven hurricane, tornado or something.
The Pentagon press office has been designated as a SCIF (classified space) and journalists are now banned from entering it, reports WaPo's Scott Nover. wapo.st/4fZu2kW
Steve Herman24“The Department of Defense should immediately reverse this decision, restore meaningful access for credentialed journalists and reaffirm its commitment to transparency and the First Amendment.”
Craig Thomler 5The most transparent administration… Transparently anti-transparency.
Undergrnd4Come again? The "press" office, you say?
Democracy Matters!3Yeah...that's not going to help Kegsbreath.
LOL, the “press office” is “classified“. Doesn‘t Hegseth get that the press offices are how the Pentagon and White House controls the press? If journalists have to meet people in dark alleyways there’s going to be even more leaks 😂
Benjamin de Groot4The way I've heard it said is: the system has been built to give these people every advantage, but they're so angered by the idea that it must show a mask of equitability that they want to tear the entire system down anyway.
Fred Austere4You lost me at ‘Doesn‘t Hegseth get’… Apart from munted off his face and fascist tattoos, not much.
RotorRat2This will be actually crazy for journalists
