{"id":174023,"date":"2026-03-25T00:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/174023\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T00:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:38:14","slug":"new-york-times-says-pentagon-is-defying-court-order-in-press-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/174023\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Says Pentagon Is “Defying” Court Order In Press Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe New York Times<\/a> is seeking a new order that compels Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth<\/a>\u2018s team to rescind a set of press access restrictions that a federal judge ruled unconstitutional last week.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a filing Tuesday afternoon, the Times accused the Pentagon<\/a> of \u201ccontemptuously defying\u201d U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman\u2019s ruling last week<\/a>, which found that new restrictions on access to the complex were vague and violated the First Amendment. Among other things, the policy threatened to revoke reporters\u2019 credentials if they solicited unauthorized information, whether classified or unclassified.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Monday, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell unveiled a revised policy <\/a>that replaced the term \u201csolicitation\u201d with \u201cintentional inducement of unauthorized disclosure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut the Times attorneys, including Ted Boutrous and Katie Townsend, wrote in their filing<\/a> that the revisions are actually new restrictions. They said that the new language would merely be a \u201c\u2018rebuttable presumption\u2019 that a reporter who offers a Department source \u2018anonymity or privacy protection\u2019 has committed a so-called \u2018intentional inducement of unauthorized disclosure.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Times attorneys also claimed retaliation, pointing to Parnell\u2019s announcement that reporters will be prohibited from the Pentagon building without the escort. Parnell announced that reporter workspaces would be moved to an outside annex<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Times attorneys wrote that \u201crather than comply with the court\u2019s order and accompanying opinion,\u201d the Pentagon team is \u201ccontemptuously defying it \u2014 both in letter and spirit in a newly released \u2018interim\u2019 policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn their filing, the Times\u2019 attorneys cited a quote that Timothy Parlatore, counsel for the Pentagon, gave to the Times reporting on the revisions. Parlatore said that the revisions \u201cuse more words to say the same thing.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tFriedman wrote in his opinion<\/a>, \u201cThe Court recognizes that national security must be protected, the security of our troops must be protected, and war plans must be protected. But especially in light of the country\u2019s recent incursion into Venezuela and its ongoing war with Iran, it is more important than ever that the public have access to information from a variety of perspectives about what its government is doing \u2014 so that the public can support government policies, if it wants to support them; protest, if it wants to protest; and decide based on full, complete, and open information who they are going to vote for in the next election.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Pentagon plans to appeal the ruling. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe new restrictions, put in place last year, led to an exodus of news outlets from the Pentagon, as reporters refused to sign an agreement as a condition to renew their credentials. Major broadcast and cable networks, as well as outlets from the AP to Newsmax, departed the complex. In their place have been a number of Trump-supporting outlets, including The Federalist and One America News Network.<\/p>\n

\n\tA Pentagon spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Times\u2018 new filing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Times is seeking a new order that compels Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth\u2018s team to rescind…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15019,17397,1208,9,11,10,980,4658,1351],"class_list":{"0":"post-174023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-defense-department","9":"tag-electionline","10":"tag-media","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-new-york-times","15":"tag-pentagon","16":"tag-pete-hegseth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}