A federal judge on June 30 blocked the Pentagon from enforcing its policy requiring journalists to be escorted through the premises at all times.
In his opinion, U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman said the country’s founders “believed that the nation’s security requires a free press and an informed people and that such security is endangered by governmental suppression of political speech.”
“As our country celebrates its 250th anniversary this very week, that principle must not be abandoned now,” he wrote.
Pentagon will appeal
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