Pentagon Launches Wild New Gambit to Avoid Facing Reporters

The Daily Beast · Vic Verbalaitis · 2026-11-05 21:36 UTC

The Department of Defense hasn’t held a live press briefing in six months.

Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon has seemingly found a new loophole to feign transparency amid President Donald Trump’s widely panned war in Iran.

U.S. Central Command, the military combatant command leading operations in the Middle East, launched a new podcast on Thursday—exactly six months since the defense secretary’s last Pentagon press briefing and more than eight months since the unpopular war began.

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