A Fox News contributor blasted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s new policy requiring journalists to only report administration-approved talking points, saying the move would “devastate” the Pentagon press corps and “strangle” the free press.

“This is actually quite breathtaking in terms of its implications for the free press. There is no precedent for what they’re doing here,” conservative legal scholar and professor Jonathan Turley told Fox News Special Report host Bret Baier.

Reporters covering the Department of Defense must now sign forms pledging to adhere to new rules, including a prohibition on publishing any information gathered at the Pentagon that hasn’t been expressly approved.

Turley said that he was “bowled over” by the inclusion of CUI, or “controlled unclassified inform

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