The Pentagon just locked journalists out of its press office and declared it a classified area—while calling this the most transparent War Department in history. This isn’t transparency; it’s Orwellian doublespeak designed to hide military operations from public view. If you can’t access the press office, there is no press freedom. Source: https://truthout.org/articles/pentagon-announces-policy-designating-its-press-office-as-a-classified-area/
The DOJ is now arresting people and strip-searching them for dodging records requests—the exact tactic Trump perfected while blocking visitor logs, hiding documents, and stonewalling oversight. His administration fought transparency at every turn, invoked executive privilege constantly, and refused to release basic government information. Now they’re prosecuting the little people for the same secrecy games…