Washington: Journalist Tara Copp has covered the military for nearly 20 years and worked out of the Pentagon for more than a decade. Today, along with almost all her colleagues, she packed up her things, handed in her press pass and walked out of the building.

It made for an extraordinary sight: the Pentagon press corps filing out of the war department’s headquarters, carrying boxes and saying goodbye, after their credentials were cancelled for refusing to sign up to new conditions that media outlets have described as censorious, anti-democratic and “disturbing”.

“We all left together,” Copp said. “There were probably 45 to 50 of us … we gathered as a group one last time. We’re entirely proud of how we’ve handled this. We are not backing down, we are not compromising.”

Among other th

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