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"The Pentagon Press Office has been redesignated as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility due to speechwriters from the Office of the Secretary of War sharing the facility," Valdez wrote.

"These speechwriters routinely handle classified material … as a result, journalists will no longer be permitted to enter the office space. There's nothing controversial about that."

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[–] AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

Ummmm... does anyone else see this as a dangerous escalation?

[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago

As we know, the pentagon has a shortage of SCIFs. They just had to take the press office

[–] Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app 9 points 1 day ago

Just get the info from the signal chat instead.

[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 11 points 1 day ago

Transparency!

-Republicans!

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pentagon bars journalists from its press office

Military intelligence

[–] sapetoku@sh.itjust.works 3 points 21 hours ago

Military intelligence

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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

"These speechwriters routinely handle classified material … as a result, journalists will no longer be permitted to enter the office space. There's nothing controversial about that."

This must be the first administration who's speechwriters handle classified material...

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 5 points 1 day ago

What's wrong ... was their office in the East Wing previously ?

So they just gonna sit in the press conference and talk to themselves?

[–] kibblebits@quokk.au 2 points 1 day ago

I thought they did that last year?