Trump Administration puts new borders in Pentagon

The US defense minister Pete Hegseth issued order on Friday that the journalists must have official escorts within a large part of the Pentagon building, the youngest in a series of restrictions on the Trump management that were put on the press.

The measures that come into force immediately have reduced reporters from most headquarters of the Department of Defense in Arlington, Virginia, unless they have an official approval and accompaniment.

“While the department for transparency is still obliged, the department is equally obliged to protect CSNI (classified intelligence) and sensitive information – the non -authorized disclosure whose lives of the US service members could endanger,” said Hegseth in a memorandum.

He described the protection of the classified national intelligence information and operational security “an unshakable imperative for the department”.

The Pentagon Press Association, a member organization that represents the interests of the Press Corps for the US military, said that the new rules seemed to be a “direct attack on freedom of the press”.

“The decision is said to be based on concerns regarding operational security. However, the Pentagon Press Corps has access to not coordinated, not classified rooms in the Pentagon under Republican and Democratic Administrations, including after the attacks of September 11, 2001” “

The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comments to explain the Press Association.