The Pentagon thinks it has a right to mandate that secrets that are no longer secret be treated as secrets by reporters covering military trials at Guantánamo. And a veteran Miami Herald reporter has been barred from Gitmo for republishing infomation already in the public domain. Has the Pentagon gone to far?

“A guy, we can’t tell you who, told us something, we can’t tell you what, that makes us think you’re a terrorist, but we can’t tell you why.” Our nation is defined, not by the attacks upon us, but our response.

I think that reporters are well within their rights to argue aggressively for the access and assistance they need to adequately cover a story… but I also believe that military officers who serve as Public Affairs Officers deserve to be treated respectfully.