Pentagon Designates Press Room as Classified Space

A spokesperson for the Pentagon said that press access to key officials would be ‘by appointment only’ moving forward.

The Pentagon in Arlington, Va., on May 25, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

The Pentagon Press Office has been designated a classified space in the complex, with journalists being evicted from the area to make room for a new classified speechwriter area.

“The Pentagon Press Office has been redesignated as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility due to speechwriters from the Office of the Secretary of War sharing the facility,” Joel Valdez, a spokesperson for the War Department, announced in a post on X on June 1.