"While Pentagon reporters are still largely barred from the building, as litigation over the agency's press rules continues, the change would have an outsize impact on them upon a possible return -- restricting access to a space they have for years been able to walk freely.

The Pentagon Press Office has been redesignated as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) due to speechwriters from the Office of the Secretary of War sharing the facility," bleated acting Pentagon press secretary Joel Valdez.

"These speechwriters routinely handle classified material and require SIPRNet access."

*** Nefarious Trumpf Junta Censoring "Stars and Stripes" Newspaper ***

This is the newspaper where the late, great war correspondents Andy Rooney and Ernie Pyle made their bones.

"Two advisory board members of Stars and Stripes, the military newspaper that has long enjoyed editorial independence from the government, sued the DOD , alleging that an effort to impose new restrictions on the paper was an act of illegal censorship.

The complaint, filed in federal district court in Washington, comes from Susan "Suki" Dardarian and William "Bill" Church, two Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalists on the Stripes advisory board. Dardarian is a former editor and senior vice president of the Minnesota Star Tribune, and Church is the executive editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper.

In March, the DOD outlined a broad "modernization" effort for the newspaper. That memo followed up on a pledge made in January to overhaul the publication and rid it of "woke distractions." In April, Trumpf junta apparatchik Sean Parnell fired the publication's ombudsman, a role charged by Congress with safeguarding the paper's editorial independence."