Steven Cash warned that the Trump administration and its Pentagon leadership view the public and the press as adversaries rather than stakeholders
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- Steven Cash warned that the Trump administration and its Pentagon leadership view the public and the press as adversaries rather than stakeholders
Steven Cash, a former intelligence officer and executive director of the Steady State – an advocacy group of more than 400 former national security officials – warns that the Trump administration and its Pentagon leadership do not view the public or the press as stakeholders to be informed, but as adversaries to be defeated.
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Origin: extracted from ‘Shameful’: Pentagon accused of cover-up over US military casualties in Iran war · 2026-09-11 21:38