Jimmy the Perjurer's New Policy: Talking to a Reporter is the Same as Talking to a Chinese Spy.

Codification of the view of the Spooks that all reporters are spies:

Months after the Edward Snowden surveillance disclosures presented US intelligence with a more skeptical media landscape, the intelligence community’s leader has instituted a new media policy: substantive contact with journalists without prior approval can be a firing offense. ... At a “minimum,” the directive reads, incidents “will be handled in the same manner as a security violation.”

No doubt that in practice, they'll carve out a working exception for the national security stenographers of Fox News and the NY Times.