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Opinion: Why I’m handing in my Pentagon press pass

todayOctober 14, 2025 2

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U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (L), accompanied by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Dan Caine (R), speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon in June in Arlington, Va.

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon’s new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what’s really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.

(Image credit: Andrew Harnik)

Written by: Prometheus

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