"The news outlet’s former publisher, Max Lederer, editor-in-chief, Erik Slavin, and Middle East correspondent, Lara Korte, allege, in the language of the complaint, that the defense department and the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, “are attempting to fire Plaintiffs for speaking up as private citizens in support of the press’s freedom to cover military operations, its need to reach all servicepersons, and in retaliation for their publication of a news report on deteriorating conditions aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln during its extended tour of duty in the Mid-East.”"
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