"The Pentagon Press Office has been redesignated as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility due to speechwriters from the Office of the Secretary of War sharing the facility," Valdez wrote. "These speechwriters routinely handle classified material as a result, journalists will no longer be permitted to enter the office space. There's nothing controversial about that."
Commenter. 'There's no law stating that press are required at the Pentagon. They can be briefed by the Whitehouse.'
Another. 'We are at the point now where they aren't even trying to come up with good excuses anymore. Press is kicked out because they had to relocate three speech writers into that space? Really? There's no other spare rooms in the largest government facility in the country? Please'