MAGA Reporter Fired for ‘Telling Truth’ About Pete Hegseth

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A proud MAGA reporter says she was fired after she dared to criticize Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

Gabrielle Cuccia, the chief Pentagon correspondent for the far-right network One America News (OAN), was axed after she wrote a scathing Substack post tearing into the Pentagon for limiting journalists’ access.

“The Commander-in-Chief welcomes the hard questions… and yes, even the dumb ones,” Cuccia wrote. “Why won’t the Secretary of Defense do the same?”

“But let’s be honest—since January, the real leaks from the Pentagon haven’t come from the press. They’ve come from Hegseth’s own team and other senior officials,” she wrote.

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MAGA Reporter Fired for ‘Telling Truth’ About Pete Hegseth

A proud MAGA reporter says she was fired after she dared to criticize Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Gabrielle Cuccia, the chief Pentagon correspondent for the far-right network One America News (OAN), was axed after she wrote a scathing Substack post tearing into the Pentagon for limiting...
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The article was headlined “The Secretary of Defense-sive.”
 






Gabrielle Cuccia

@gabbycuccia


The Secretary of Defense-sivePentagon's Press Protocol Forces You to Trust Your Government -- And You Shouldn't.“I Love My Country, Not My Government.But that doesn't mean I don't want my government to succeed. Actually it means quite the opposite.Remember, I'm still the journalist that warned Hegseth's team about Susan Rice and several other Obama Biden holdovers still on the Pentagon's Policy Board for the Under Secretary of Defense.The one that emailed and called the Under Secretary's team and the SecDef's team myself when they were not aware of this information, before publishing my findings which in turn resulted in Susan Rice's firing.”
 

Gabrielle Cuccia

@gabbycuccia

BREAKING: Pentagon Press Association responds to
@SecDef
’s memo.“There is no way to sugarcoat it. Today’s memo by Secretary Hegseth appears to be a direct attack on the freedom of the press and America’s right to know what its military is doing.The Pentagon Press Association is extremely concerned by the decision to restrict movement of accredited journalists within the Pentagon through non-secured, unclassified hallways.The decision is purportedly based on concerns about operational security. But the Pentagon Press Corps has had access to non-secured, unclassified spaces in the Pentagon for decades, under Republican and Democratic administrations, including in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, without any concern about OP-SEC from DoD leadership. And this decision does not come in a vacuum: It follows the unprecedented move by the Defense Department this year to evict many of America’s largest news organizations from their dedicated workspaces. Journalists working from the Pentagon everyday will now have less freedom of movement than officers from foreign countries who are assigned to the U.S. military’s headquarters, as well as maintenance staff and concessions workers scattered throughout one of the world’s largest office buildings. This decision eliminates the media’s freedom to freely access press officers for the military services who are specifically hired to respond to press queries. We would welcome any serious conversation about operational security in the Pentagon with reporters, many of whom have embedded with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere and who have followed the U.S. military’s ground rules without fail throughout their careers. No such conversation has been offered by Secretary Hegseth or his team, despite regular outreach from PPA that has sought to keep in place a professional working relationship that has persisted for decades. The PPA is also concerned by the memo’s promises of additional security measures to come that appear set to further limit our ability to cover the Pentagon.Lastly, the PPA is puzzled why the DoD is devoting such attention to restricting Pentagon media instead of engaging with it as senior leaders have long done, including Secretary Hegseth’s failure to brief the press in the briefing room in his first 100 days.”
 
I did not read her screed but it is likely mostly right....there has been almost no interest in a functioning independent press in Washington from any quarter for about 30 years.

Sounds like someone just figured that out.
 
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