Pentagon defends banning reporters from press office by turning it into a classified room: ‘Journalists no longer permitted’ ^33%

The Independent - By Rachel Dobkin - 6/1/2026, 11:32 PM

Negativity Bias 29.5% - Unattributed Quote 26.6% - Self-Serving Bias 18.9%

The Pentagon has defended banning reporters from its press office by turning it into a classified room. In the Trump administration’s latest move to hinder the media’s access to the Defense Department, the press office has been redesignated as a “Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility,” Acting Pentagon Press Secretary Joel Valdez... more