The Pentagon’s Tuesday deadline for reporters to sign its new press access agreement has passed, and journalists from nearly every major media organization have turned in their badges and cleared their workspaces after refusing to comply with the Department of War’s revised credentialing policy.

Reporters were seen on Wednesday leaving the Pentagon as the Department of War enforced its new press policy requiring journalists to sign an acknowledgment of access and information-gathering rules. The department had set a Tuesday deadline to sign or return credentials, and those who refused were required to vacate their offices the following morning.

“Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did

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