The unprecedented move is the strongest action yet in restricting how reporters cover the country’s largest federal agency.
The unprecedented move is the strongest action yet in restricting how reporters cover the country’s largest federal agency.
The Pentagon on Friday said reporters who cover the agency could access the building only if they agreed not to publish certain information, an unprecedented move that requires media outlets to hand the department vast control over what they publish.
Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell, in a Friday evening email, said journalists could continue to enter the Defense Department only if they sign a note saying they will not publish classified information or some less sensitive documents that are not explicitly labeled as government secrets. The rule will take effect over the next two to three weeks.
