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Source: WKZO

A U.S. judge appeared on Friday likely to block the Pentagon’s restrictive new policy on press access that threatens journalists with being branded security risks if they ask Defense Department employees to disclose classified or some types of unclassified information.

“Reporters have to be able to ask a question,” U.S. District Judge ​Paul Friedman told the Justice Department lawyers. “All you have to do is say, ‘I can’t answer that ‌question for ​national security reasons.’”