News organizations got a rare “thank you” from the Trump administration for not putting its military action in Venezuela in jeopardy by reporting on it before it happened. That came from Secretary of State Marco Rubio — and it contrasts with the consistent posture of Pete Hegseth's Defense Department, which has consistently been at odds with the media. Many mainstream Pentagon reporters have walked away from the building rather than agree to Hegseth's restrictive new media policies — in part because he suggests they can't be trusted to deal with classified or sensitive information.
