The New York Times Files Another Lawsuit Against Pentagon, This Time Over Press Escort Policy

The New York Times filed a new lawsuit against the Department of Defense and Secretary Pete Hegseth, this time challenging a policy that requires credentialed journalists to have an official escort when inside the Pentagon.

In the lawsuit, the Times’ attorneys wrote that the purpose of the policy “is to restrict journalists’ ability to do what they have always done: ask questions of government employees and gather information to report stories that take the public beyond official pronouncements.”

In March, shortly after a federal judge ruled that a previous set of Hegseth’s press restrictions were unconstitutional, the Pentagon implemented a new set of interim guidelines, including the one requiring press escorts. The judge, Paul Friedman, also struck down a number of those new restrictions, but they remain in place as the Pentagon pursues an appeal.

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