The Pentagon Press Office has been designated a classified space in the complex, with journalists being evicted from the area to make room for a new classified speechwriter area.
“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,” Joel Valdez, a spokesperson for the War Department, announced in a post on X on June 1.
He was responding to a post from a journalist which noted that the area has routinely been used to allow journalists to speak with public affairs officers, who have historically answered press questions….
Pentagon Designates Press Room as Classified Space
