“This is the most transparent War Department in history,” a Pentagon official said following the policy barring media.

The Trump administration’s “asinine attempts to silence objective journalism just hit a new low,” said one press freedom advocate late Monday after the Pentagon announced that the US Department of Defense would mark its press office as a classified area, banning journalists from the space where they’ve previously talked openly with DOD officials. Reporters on the military are currently…

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