The Pentagon's Correspondents' Corridor remains closed. Three weeks after Judge Paul Friedman invoked Kafka and Catch-22 to describe the access regime the Defense Department erected after his March 20 ruling, nothing has changed [1]. The corridor where credentialed journalists worked for decades is dark. Reporters operate from an unfinished external annex [2].

The closure began March 23, when Pentagon Press Secretary Sean Parnell announced the corridor's immediate shutdown and the relocation of press workspace to an annex facility [3]. The move came three days after Judge Friedman vacated key security restrictions and ordered the restoration of seven New York Times press passes [4].

Movement inside the Pentagon still requires military escorts. The shuttle bus to the library-area press space was initially restricted before the Defense Department relented under public pressure [5]. The National Press Club condemned the closure as a further restriction on reporter access [6]. The Trump administration has said it will appeal the original ruling. No new compliance order has been issued. The Pentagon continues to run a wartime operation from a building that has locked out the journalists assigned to cover it.

-- ANNA WEBER, Berlin