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This week, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth summoned hundreds of U.S. military leaders to Washington. “It’s not clear what the purpose of this fairly unprecedented meeting is,” the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, said last night on Washington Week With The Atlantic. Panelists joined him to discuss the meeting, as well as new press-access rules at the Pentagon.

To have hundreds of generals and admirals from all over the world in the same room, pulled off key battles and front lines, “poses a huge security risk,” Nan

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