The Pentagon said it should not be risk of disclosing unauthorized information to journalists or losing access to the building.
This change is one of the new restrictions, and before, we are trying to impose limitations on the movement of journalists in the facility, the home of the Ministry of Defense, known as the Ministry of Defense.
In recent months, we have followed a series of leaks.
Recently, PETE HEGSETH, a new war minister, said in social media: “Press does not run a pentagon. People can no longer go around the hall of a safe facility.
The new restrictions have been specified as a briefing memo sent to the media members, which must be signed to maintain the pentagonal media credentials.
The department said, “We are dedicated to transparency to promote responsibility and public trust.”
But added. “DOW information must be approved for an appropriate approval official before it is released even if it is not classified.”
The signators ask to admit that the decision on the media credentials for the building can be based on “unauthorized access, unauthorized access attempts, or unauthorized disclosure of classified national security information” or unearned information.
A pentagon spokesman Pentagon said in a statement that “the guidelines of the notes provided to the Pentagon’s credential resident media reaffirm the standards that match all other military bases.” “This is a basic and common guidance to protect sensitive information and protect the safety of everyone who works in the Pentagon.”
Democrats and members of the media condemned the decree.
National Press Club, an American journalist, called this called “direct assault on independent journalism in the most important place: US troops.”
The Ranking member of the Democratic Party, Jack Reid, and the Senate Dream Service Committee, called this restriction as “a malicious trouble of the freedom and freedom of the media.”
In an interview with the media on Saturday, Trump dismissed the impact on the limitations of freedom of speech.
“There is nothing to stop the reporter,” he said.
HEGSETH was previously investigated on his sensitive information processing after sharing detailed information about Yemen’s bombing in a group chat, including reporters in March. Michael Waltz, a former national security adviser, recently identified as the UN ambassador in the United States, has invited reporters to chat.
The administration found that the information report leaked in June contradicted the damage caused by the US strike on Iran’s nuclear program.
