Many of the reporters waited to leave together at a 4 p.m. deadline set by the Defense Department to get out of the building.
“It’s sad, but I’m also really proud of the press corps that we stuck together,” said Nancy Youssef, a reporter for The Atlantic who has had a desk at the Pentagon since 2007. She took a map of the Middle East out to her car.
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