

This is a hilarious self-own.
NatSec reporters are critical components for modern defense policy, as they are how the planners and politicians manufacture consent across the populace.
I don’t think this will turn all of these journalists against their masters, errrrr sources, but I bet you get a few additional cases of journalism that would have been previously swept under the rug as favors for said sources.
Maybe not enough to rock the system, but possibly enough to pressure Hegseth.
Covert actions are also acts of war, but the plausible deniability can be used by both sides as an off-ramp from further escalation.