Tommy Vietor

And there were so many people on that boat that most experts you talk to think there's no way that it was just drug smugglers, that there's probably also some people, some migrants who are trying to

you know, go to another location from Venezuela on that boat.

We're just innocent victims.

So deeply, deeply messed up stuff.

Speaking of attacks on constitutionally protected speech, let's talk about their new rules for reporters covering the Pentagon.

So the Pentagon first announced this policy in a memo released on September 18th.

That memo demanded that Pentagon reporters agree to submit their coverage to the government for approval before publishing it, including reports about unclassified information.

Those who did not sign risked losing their press credentials.

That did not fly with basically anyone in the press corps.

So the Pentagon released a revised version of this memo on October 6th that dropped the language about submitting their coverage to the government in advance, but replaced it with a threat to take away press credentials from Pentagon reporters who, quote, solicit information that has not been approved for release, which is what we usually call reporting.

Love it.

It feels like this couldn't be a more obvious First Amendment violation.

No.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Yeah.

I think they have until October 14th.

The reporters do to agree to this policy.

So we'll see what happens after that when this when this comes out.

Yeah, so this is coming out tomorrow.