WASHINGTON, United States: The US Defense Department has designated its press office a classified space, the Pentagon said Monday, making it off-limits to journalists who used to be able to enter the area. “The Pentagon Press Office has been redesignated as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility” because speechwriters who “routinely handle classified material” work in the area, Acting Pentagon Press Secretary Joel Valdez said in a statement. “As a result, journalists will no longer be permitted to enter the office space,” he added.

National Press Club Statement on the banning of reporters from Pentagon press office

WASHINGTON, United States: The US Defense Department has designated its press office a classified space, the Pentagon said Monday, making it off-limits to journalists who used to…