There will be a lot of handwringing inside and outside media circles about the new Pentagon rules will make the missions of both the military and the media more difficult. But the truth is little will change. Meanwhile the whole episode serves as reminder to both sides of the military/media divide just where their loyalties should lie.

I have obtained highly-unclassified PowerPoint slide outlining the internal Pentagon strategy for dealing with the news media. I am publishing the briefing slide EXCLUSIVELY to pull the curtain back on the techniques the powerful Pentagon press office uses to successfully influence news coverage.

The dirty little secret is that what saved the Pentagon from disaster was the fact the gunman was unaware of a gaping hole in Pentagon security, and therefore fortunately didn’t know how to exploit it.

A minor skirmish in the Obama Administration’s war on Fox: feeling the chill in the Pentagon briefing room…

To subscribe to the more benign view that this was good old-fashioned public relations, not pernicious propaganda, one would have to give some of the people involved the benefit of the doubt, and these days no one is predisposed in that direction.