The Pentagon has published its massive book of rules for war, and one of them is that some journalists may be considered "unprivileged belligerents," essentially a new euphemism for someone whose rights need not be respected.
The passage on page 173 of the 1,000+ page document known as the "Department of Defense Law of War Manual" contains a passage that one expert who spoke to the Washington Times called "odd."
"In general, journalists are civilians. However, journalists may be members of the armed forces, persons authorized to accompany the armed forces, or unprivileged belligerents."
The term would seem to throw journalists operating independently of government handling into the same category as "enemy combatants" — the previous era's preferred term for people the US is trying to kill.
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http://sputniknews.com/military/20150624/1023769486.html
So ... we no longer have freedom of the press in the US. Everything is war, and journalists not in bed with the state are now the enemy.
Can you spell P-O-L-I-C-E S-T-A-T-E ???
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