{"id":315709,"date":"2025-09-23T05:35:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T05:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=315709"},"modified":"2025-09-24T07:59:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T07:59:21","slug":"journalism-no-longer-tolerated-at-us-department-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=315709","title":{"rendered":"Journalism no longer tolerated at US Department of WAR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leo Hohmann \u2013 Leo\u2019s Newsletter Sept 22, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The government monstrosity formerly known as the Department of Defense and recently renamed the Department of War<\/em> is cracking down on media coverage, announcing new rules and restrictions on journalists.<\/p>\n

The Secretary of the new Department of<\/strong> War<\/em><\/strong>, Pete Hegseth, announced<\/a> Friday that members of the press operating inside the Pentagon, must submit to significantly tighter rules for access and reporting.<\/p>\n

Those who don\u2019t play by the new rules will lose access.<\/p>\n

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The new rules require all journalists to work through established public-affairs channels, display press credentials at all times, and accept that possession of unauthorized information \u2014 even if it\u2019s non-classified information \u2014 may result in the loss of press credentials.<\/p>\n

The policy, laid out in a memo released Friday, follows restrictions introduced earlier this year.<\/p>\n

In May, Hegseth, in the name of national security, directed the Pentagon<\/a><\/strong> to impose tighter controls on press activity after a series of leaks he said endangered bombing operations in Yemen.<\/p>\n

Hegseth has it backwards. If leaks are happening that compromise national security, then he should be cracking down on his own government employees and contractors who are doing the leaking, not on the press.<\/p>\n

Hegseth was a member of the media himself before he took the job of Defense Secretary, but he clearly learned nothing from that experience. He has essentially banned journalism at the Pentagon. The implication of his new rules is that reporters covering his massive bureaucracy are only allowed to repeat what\u2019s said by a government official speaking at an official press conference or regurgitate the contents of a government press release. Sorry but that\u2019s not journalism. That\u2019s stenography.<\/p>\n

Sorry Pete, but I\u2019m not with you on this one. You\u2019ve done some good things as head of the Department of Defense, such as eliminating DEI. But this isn\u2019t good. It\u2019s the type of thing that happens when a nation is no longer confident of itself and shuts down transparency.<\/p>\n

Any Pentagon correspondent who doesn\u2019t turn in their resignation this week in response to this outragious attack on the First Amendment is no journalist at all. A true journalist couldn\u2019t work under these smothering \u201crules,\u201d because they provide no space for the actual craft of journalistic investigation and independent analysis.<\/p>\n

When you take away the ability of the press to talk to sources of its own choosing, when you take away its ability to assemble facts independently of the government authorities, you strip it of its entire purpose. It becomes the state-run media. The official government organ. Like Pravda was for the old Soviet system.<\/p>\n

By the way, the self-proclaimed \u201cPeace President\u201d taking it upon himself to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War<\/em>, explains everything about why Hegseth made the changes he made and is cracking down on press freedoms.<\/p>\n

The new name reflects a federal government not interested merely in national defense but one that is positioning itself to be permanently at war. A permanent war state. In a time of war, nations are far less tolerant of dissent, and far less tolerant of inconvenient facts. As the old saying goes, and it really is true, \u201cthe first casualty of war is the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

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