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 man who built his brand attacking government secrecy and praising WikiLeaks now wants gag orders on every federal employee—with criminal penalties for talking to journalists. He praised leaks when they helped him, but suddenly wants Soviet-style information control to prevent Americans from exposing wrongdoing. This is authoritarianism wrapped in the language of accountability. Source:…