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The Pentagon is changing its rules on press access, marking what legal experts and press advocates call an "unprecedented" restriction on journalists covering the nation’s military headquarters.

George Washington University law professor and Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley warned the move may be a "bridge too far" and potentially "devastating" to the Pentagon press corps.

" There is no precedent for what they're doing here," Turley said Monday on " Special Report ."

The policy would require credentialed reporters to sign a pledge agreeing not to publish information unless it has been cleared for release. That would include materials that have already been unclassified. Journalists who refuse could lose their access.

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