Image: Wikimedia Commons (DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Madelyn Keech) Just a few days ago, The New York Times filed a sweeping lawsuit accusing the Pentagon of violating the First and Fifth Amendments by updating the rules for Pentagon Facility Alternate Credentials. The Times frames these rules as an attack on journalism itself. That framing is completely inaccurate. The Department of War implemented a policy aimed at securing one of the most sensitive buildings in the United States, and the policy neither restricts publication nor bars legitimate reporting. It simply establishes basic conditions for physical access to the Pentagon. Those conditions are lawful, reasonable, and consistent with long-standing principles governing access to nonpublic government facilities. What the Times avoids acknowledging is that…
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