They’re outed as stooges. That doesn’t matter to the influencer crowd. But I bet this costs the DoD a lot of narrative-shaping power.
A significant fraction of Americans are addicted to rage bait. They don’t care about accuracy as much as entertainment and ideological predictability.
Known lies can still be effective.
Rely on traditional trade craft. A bouncing bevy of brothel, escort service, deepthroats; historically and dramatized, is a staid and proven primary source.
But in this other case, well there's just no value to reporting garbage.
The chances of making that via a White House press conference is pretty close to zero.
You mean like Tim Pool lol?
Could you, in a million years, ever imagine seeing his face in the White House briefing room? We're a pathetic country right now.
It’s sad that your speech has been chilled by the misuse of the karma system by some large faction of users here.
That's not exactly what's happening.
>>The rules limit where reporters can go without an official escort and convey “an unprecedented message of intimidation” for anyone in the Defense Department who might want to speak to a reporter without the approval of Hegseth’s team
On NPR (National Public Radio) a few days ago, a reporter said they could wander the halls of the Pentagon and ask anyone they ran into any question about anything. This will not be allowed anymore and, considering it's the Pentagon, doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g-s1-93297/pentagon-reporter-...
If you don’t quote it out of context you’ll see that a) he doesn’t have any problems with not having physical access to parts of the pentagon and b) the quote was part of a broader anecdote where generals contradicted the secretary of defense.
The new pledge would not allow him to report that disagreement. Which is extremely telling.
What bad things have happened from what you're describing?
In a democratic functioning society the gold standard is that citizen are allowed to ask anything and allowed to answer nothing. The GOP wants to reverse both.
Access to the Pentagon is the privilege they are revoking but the action they are punishing is not related to the Pentagon.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/15/business/medi...
That link has the actual rules.
A government with public alignment and maybe a slow leak will be fine. A government without public alignment needs to have every crack pried open until alignment with the public is restored.
I've visited the White House a couple of times and even setting foot on the complex as a visitor requires a background check, I assume the Pentagon functions similarly.
We probably should have taken it as a sign things were heading a bad direction when stuff like that began to change…
It's good for garden mulch.
I do love that despite the administration lying about everything there are still people who will take what they say at face value without a shred of critical thinking.
They're doing this because people keep leaking unflattering pieces of information and Petey gets his feelings hurt pretty quickly. It has nothing to do with security, and everything to do with control.