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There’s a consensus that the current restrictive policies are unlikely to withstand legal or political challenges. Some suggest that pressure from media organizations, public opinion, and legal constraints will force the Pentagon to relax its policies in the near future.
One observer predicts that news organizations will continue to resist and push back against these restrictions, as doing otherwise would cave to overt government control over the press. There’s a risk that the Pentagon might lose its entire press corps if it insists on these restrictions excessively, which would diminish transparency substantially.