WASHINGTON: The Pentagon is drawing fire for new legal guidelines that liken war correspondents to spies and says that in some instances they can be treated as “unprivileged belligerents.”
The guidelines received little notice when they were published in June in the Defense Department’s new Law of War Manual, a compendium of legal advice for commanders and others in the US military establishment.
But in an editorial on Monday, New York Times slammed the guidelines and called for their repeal, warning they would make the work of journalists covering armed conflict “more dangerous, cumbersome and subject to censorship.”
The manual’s section on the …read more
Source: theSun
