WASHINGTON: The Pentagon has unveiled new restrictions on media overlaying the US navy, requiring them to pledge to not disclose something not formally licensed for publication and limiting their actions inside the Division of Battle.
The brand new tips, specified by a prolonged memo distributed to reporters on Friday (Sep 19), require them to signal an affidavit promising to conform, or danger shedding their media credentials.
The transfer is the most recent by the administration of President Donald Trump to control media coverage of his insurance policies, and after he advised that destructive tales could possibly be “unlawful.”
The Pentagon “stays dedicated to transparency to advertise accountability and public belief,” the memo says.
However it provides: “Data have to be authorised for public launch by an acceptable authorizing official earlier than it’s launched, even whether it is unclassified”, successfully barring materials sourced to unnamed officers.
This new restriction would apply to each categorized and “managed unclassified info.”
The memo additionally particulars sweeping new restrictions on the place Pentagon reporters can truly go with out official escorts inside the navy’s huge headquarters simply exterior Washington.
“The ‘press’ doesn’t run the Pentagon, the individuals do,” Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote on X.
