Cuccia said the real leaks from the Pentagon have come from Hegseth’s own team and other senior officials. Hegseth, a former Fox News personality,
She criticized him for limiting freedom of movement in the name of national security.“The Pentagon wants to paint a picture that journalists are freely roaming classified spaces, sneaking into (secure areas), and leaking top-secret information,” she wrote. “And that is simply not true. There are security cameras everywhere, protocols in place and quite frankly, it would be painfully obvious if a reporter was in a space they didn’t belong.”
Cuccia said the real leaks from the Pentagon have come from Hegseth’s own team and other senior officials. Hegseth, a former Fox News personality,in March when The Atlantic magazine’s editor-in-chief was mistakenly included in a Signal chat in which the defense secretary discussed upcoming military strikes.She criticized Hegseth for not yet holding a media briefing at the Pentagon.
“The Commander-in-Chief welcomes the hard questions ... and yes, even the dumb ones,” she wrote. “Why won’t the Secretary of Defense do the same?”Three days after her Memorial Day Substack post, Cuccia said her Pentagon access badge was revoked. “By Friday,” she said, “I was out of a job.”
The Defense Department did not pull Cuccia’s credentials, according to a Defense official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss personnel issues. Cuccia said OAN told her the Substack piece had been “put on their radar,” but she wouldn’t say by who. She wouldn’t speak further about what her employer told her, and OAN president Charles Herring told The Associated Press that it does not discuss personnel issues.
“When a reporter asks inconvenient questions about government overreach, the response should be accountability — not silence, and certainly not separation,” Cuccia said.Here is a by-the-numbers look at Goodyear airships over time:
Goodyear establishes an Aeronautics Department to build lighter-than-air aircrafts, and by 1912 the company had built its first balloon.In 1930, the “Defender” blimp became the first airship in the world to carry a lit neon sign so the company’s name could be seen after dark.
Goodyear began making airships for the U.S. Navy in 1917, and its first blimp — the first commercial non-rigid airship flown using helium — launched years later, becoming a marketing tool.From 1942 to 1944, the company built more than 150 airships for the Navy to serve in World War II, flying patrol over warships on the seas with zero reported loss of ships when a blimp was on watch.