Phil Stewart

And Reuters, myself and a colleague of mine, broke the story about the US military investigation that showed that US troops were likely responsible for that strike.

And the Pentagon still hasn't commented on whether that's true.

And the Secretary of Defense came out

at a press conference that I attended, I wasn't able to ask a question because the media he called on weren't Reuters.

But at that press conference, he said, we don't give quarter, no quarter to our enemies, which created a lot of concern among human rights officials about whether those were orders to the US military to not give quarter to enemies, which would be illegal under national law.

So there are real concerns about what the U.S.

is saying at these events, these press conferences, the credibility of U.S.

officials among analysts and experts, and whether it's being damaged in an effort to message this war correctly.

The no quarter answer?

It wasn't to me.

But yeah, Pete Hegseth talked about, we don't give quarter to our enemies.

Yeah, at a press conference.

So I am also a board member of the Pentagon Press Association.

This is a matter that we issued a statement about yesterday.

And we believe that the new Pentagon policy is not just a violation of the Constitution, but it violates the judge's order.

And so at the Pentagon Press Association, we're quite concerned because basically they're going to create a situation where no media are ever allowed inside the Pentagon unescorted again.

That is the current plan.

And they've created a new policy which talks about journalism as if it were criminal.

uh and don't i know and so they want people to acknowledge that uh that that policy although you don't have to now under the new version you have to say you agree with it um

it is a problematic moment for the Pentagon reporters because they haven't been allowed in the building throughout this war.