A U.S. congressman from Georgia is putting pressure on the Pentagon for what he claims is a weak propaganda effort. The congressman is also concerned about what he says were reprisals to USA TODAY journalists reporting on the propaganda program. -db From USA TODAY , May 9, 2012, by Gregory Korte. Full story
The Department of Defense said it would not allow media coverage of the return of 30 dead Americans killed in a helicopter crash. The DOD said the absence of identifiable remains makes it impossible for relatives to have the option of granting permission. -db From the Washington Post, August 8, 2011, by Craig Whitlock. Full story
The Pentagon is making it more difficult for the public to obtain unclassified information with a new policy imposing safeguard requirements on “prior designations indicating controlled access and dissemination (e.g., For Official Use Only, Sensitive But Unclassified, Limited Distribution, Proprietary, Originator Controlled, Law Enforcement Sensitive).” The policy also orders secrecy for any unclassified information not specifically approved for public release, in effect, making secrecy rather than openness the default mode for most unclassified information. In
Editors and reporters at the New York Times, U.K.’s Guardian and Der Spiegel of Germany are poring over hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. documents expected to be released as early as Friday, Bloomberg reported today. “The Pentagon warned the U.S. Senate and House Armed Services Committees that the website WikiLeaks.org ‘ntends to release several hundred thousand’ classified U.S. State Department cables as soon as Nov. 26. The documents ‘touch on an enormous range of
The Defense Department revised rules restricting journalists in reporting from Guantanamo, agreeing not to ask reporters to withhold information deemed privileged but already in the public domain. -db The New York Times September 10, 2010 By Jeremy W. Peters The Pentagon has agreed to revise some of the rules that have restricted what journalists are free to report on from Guantánamo Bay, resolving a conflict that peaked in May when four reporters were expelled from the