Media outlets are protesting new Trump administration Pentagon policies on access to the sprawling facilities, including a requirement that journalists not report unauthorized information.
The restrictions are that latest under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth , whose office has previously booted major news outlets from regular media space inside the complex.
In a memo distributed to media outlets on Friday, the Defense Department, which the Trump administration has renamed the Department of War, said that while it “remains committed to transparency to promote accountability and public trust,” information “must be approved for public release by an appropriate authorizing official before it is released, even if it is unclassified.”
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