Military officials at Guantanamo Bay have drafted restrictive new rules for journalists visiting the naval base that require journalists to agree to have all their interviews vetted and supervised by public affairs officers.

The policy was handed out this week to journalists, including one from The Intercept, who were asked to sign and return it within as little as 26 hours if they wanted to attend military commission proceedings in the coming weeks.

“[Journalists] may not participate in any activity related to their work, including any news or information gathering activity, if they are not accompanied by a designated public affairs escort and have that escort’s explicit consent,” the policy reads. It also requires reporters to submit audio recordings of interviews to be “screened prior to upload into any laptop and prior to release.”

The policy could significantly limit the public’s understanding of what goes on at Guantanamo Bay, which still houses 40 detainees, and where the military commissions system has struggled through years of pretrial motions for the alleged perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks.

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