Source: Orange County Register
by Larry Wilson
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of top American generals and admirals who work around the globe to a meeting next week at a Virginia Marine Corps base in Virginia without saying the subject of the Big Brass get-together. Oops — that news doesn’t come from an official Pentagon press release. It’s a scoop that reporters got on Thursday, citing four United States government officials who requested anonymity. And here I am, spreading the news. And I’m repeating it just days after a bonkers, insidious, illegal demand from the Defense Department that Pentagon reporters sign a ‘pledge’ not to publish sensitive information, even if it is not classified, unless it’s been ‘approved’ by official press officers at the DoD, on threat of losing their press passes.” (09/27/25)