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The New York Times is suing the US Department of Defense and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in an effort to force the Pentagon to abandon its restrictive new press policy.
The policy, enacted last month, requires journalists to acknowledge they could be branded security risks and have their Pentagon press badges revoked if they ask department employees to disclose classified and some unclassified information.
The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, also names chief Pentagon spokesperson S
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