Published: October 15, 2025
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Today the Pentagon Press Corps handed over our badges and walked out in unison in defense of the First Amendment. It’s an unprecedented attack on the public’s right to know and the end of one of the most professional press relationships in DC.

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@TaraCopp @sentdefender This is how you plug leaks.

@TaraCopp IDK, where was your outrage when the former Secretary of Defense LITERALLY went missing? You all didn’t even know he wasn’t there even with your “full access” to the Pentagon! lol Plus, your counterparts went along with the Biden charade and cover-up. Sorry not sorry.

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@TaraCopp Good. You aren't special. You jeopardized national security. You are supposed to be government's watchdog, not lapdog.

@TaraCopp Bless your heart @TaraCopp @WSJ the rules are common sense. Deal with it or👋👋 Excellence @SecWar @DeptofWar @PeteHegseth 👏👏

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@TaraCopp Seriously. I have heard the new rules are an attack on the 1st amendment. I haven't seen them in writing. What are the new rules?

@TaraCopp Rather than risk expulsion for leaking you decide to self-expel. Genius!

@TaraCopp @sentdefender How to say, “My career depends on printing anonymous leaks from the pentagon”. Without saying it

@TaraCopp @sentdefender A healthy relationship between the media and the pentagon is important, but there’s no 1st amendment guarantees to access military planners. Yes it’s created impediments to information but leaks are a real issue. Hopefully they find a balance.

@TaraCopp It is not a First Amendment right to badger military personnel for sensitive information and then write stories about sensitive and classified information.

@TaraCopp @sentdefender Great news. Now we will get accurate news directly from the source

@TaraCopp The press will find a way. A quick interview in the parking lot. Or on a sidewalk. @SecWar Hegseth was of no help anyway. Transparency is not this administration's style. Time to go old school. Woodward and Bernstein. Phone calls and knocking on people's doors at home.

@TaraCopp @laraseligman The Pentagon staff will now get more done.

@TaraCopp What in the memo are you mad about? Wearing a badge? Not allowed in some spaces without an escort? Access to the on-site gym?

@TaraCopp Would the leakers be allowed on the night of June 5 1944?

@TaraCopp He who leads the Department that formerly was the protector of 1A+ yields the floor to the journalists who now lead the defense of this "first amongst equals" essential right. Thank you for your solidarity, signed by this (disgusted) retired Army officer

@TaraCopp Fox, NewsMax, NewsNation and the Washington Times all refused Whiskey Pete's order. Only OAN went along.

@TaraCopp @sentdefender Professional press? Isn’t that an oxymoron?

@TaraCopp First Amendment 😂 Your kind spent 4 years under the Brandon admin spewing propagandas and suppressing dissents. Good riddance. You will be out of a job soon. USAID money is gone, gone, gone.

@TaraCopp @sentdefender The press does not have a right to walk freely about the Pentagon.

@TaraCopp @sentdefender The public doesn’t need to know. They don’t have top secret clearance and neither do you.

@TaraCopp Ciao….,not a tear is shed by the public because the press has lied and played along with a false left leaning narrative for too long

@TaraCopp @sentdefender Make them apply to get the badges back.

@TaraCopp @laraseligman Too many leaks! There are people fired at the Pentagon for their relationships with the media leaking secret / confidential information.

@TaraCopp @sentdefender This is largely the same press that breathlessly pushes for gun control and to strip innocent Americans of their second amendment rights.

@TaraCopp LOL. All they had to do was sign and therefore agree that they wouldn’t do anything illegal and they refused. Tells you everything you need to know about them.

@TaraCopp Heartbreaking.

@TaraCopp So brave!!!

@TaraCopp 'heart of democracy a free and unbiased media' , until you can tick that box you haven't got a leg to stand on

@TaraCopp @sentdefender If this is so horrendous, why are they also happy and giddy? They know they’re not losing their just making a false stand

@TaraCopp lol, 👋

@TaraCopp This is probably exactly what the administration wanted?

@TaraCopp "The press ... traditionally sides with authority and the establishment." -- Sam Donaldson, ABC correspondent

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