Appeals court sides with Pentagon on escort policy for journalists

A panel of three federal judges ruled that the Pentagon’s policy requiring journalists in the building to have government escorts will stand, overturning a lower court judge’s decision. In a Thursday evening order, two of the three judges on the U...

A panel of three federal judges ruled that the Pentagon’s policy requiring journalists in the building to have government escorts will stand, overturning a lower court judge’s decision. In a Thursday evening order, two of the three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit panel said Department of Defense officials “are...