Esper directs change to Pentagon training materials that called media adversaries and a 'threat'

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In a reversal, the Pentagon is changing language used in a compulsory training program required of Defense Department personnel that referred to the news media as a potential insider threat and labeled news organizations as adversaries

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"Although adversaries is a common generic term for a person or group that opposes one's goal, it clearly has different implications when used by the military and Department of Defense normally pertaining to groups who oppose us militarily," chief Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said Thursday.

 

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Pentagon changed wordings to “News organizations are adversaries and Putin is a friend”

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