When A Journalist Becomes An "Unprivileged Belligerent"

On the Media | Aug 13, 2015

This June the Department of Defense released its long-awaited "Law of War Manual," a comprehensive guide to wartime protocols. Within the nearly-1,200 page document is language that seems to justify state censorship of the press and the classification of journalists as enemies and spies. Bob speaks with Charles A. Allen, Deputy General Counsel for International Affairs at the Department of Defense, about the manual's troubling implications for the media.

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