NYT goes on offense as Pentagon tries to defy court order with a word salad press policy

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Hegseth lost in court and is now trying to ignore the court's ruling. This will be fun to watch.

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— Sue Stone (@knittingknots.bsky.social) 2026-03-24T23:38:57.705Z

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President Donald Trump's Pentagon faces a new legal threat after a Department of Defense official admitted to tossing up a word salad press policy in response to a court order.

On Monday, the Pentagon released a new press policy after a federal judge ruled that the agency's current policy is unconstitutional, The New York Times reported. Those policies included closing the Pentagon workspace used by journalists and requiring any journalist seeking physical access to the building to be escorted.

Cmdr. Tim Parlatore, a special adviser to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, told the Times in an interview on Monday that the new policy essentially uses "more words to say the same thing and to foreclose creative misinterpretations."

Lawyers representing the Times cited that interview in a court filing on Tuesday seeking to have the Pentagon's interim policy thrown out.

"Rather than comply with the Court’s Order and accompanying Opinion, Defendants are contemptuously defying it—both in letter and spirit in a newly released 'interim' policy," the lawyers argued. "Among other things, for the first time in history, the Interim Policy bars reporters with press passes from entering the building without an escort, sets up unprecedented rules governing when a reporter can offer anonymity to a source, and leaves in place provisions that this Court’s Order struck."

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1. The NY Times has filed a motion to force Hegseth to comply with the court order

Link to tweet

Hegseth adviser Tim Parlatore told the NYT on the record that for the Pentagon’s latest press policy — after the judge’s ruling — “We used more words to say the same thing”.

The NYT then used that as evidence in its court filing that DoD isn’t complying with the judge’s ruling

[Midnight Writer]

2. This Administration's Official Motto: You're not the boss of me!

I reckon I should be thankful they are so ham-handed. They keep shooting themselves in the foot when any sane Administration would move on to more important things.

When they hit a legal wall or public rebuke, they just keep on hitting it again and again, just like a moth on a lightbulb.