Reply #1: Dude, seriously, how many days are you going to repeat this? [View All]

[Nuclear Unicorn]

I keep telling you the Pentagon doesn't own the Army Times etc

These papers are privately owned by the Gannett News service which owns USA Today:

http://www.gannett.com/about/map/armytimes.htm

The Pentagon--whether good, bad or indifferent---isn't censoring you. A private corporation--whether good, bad or indifferent--wants to enforce its side of the Fair Use clause which is rather vague:

The distinction between fair use and infringement may be unclear and not easily defined. There is no specific number of words, lines, or notes that may safely be taken without permission.

Acknowledging the source of the copyrighted material does not substitute for obtaining permission.

http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html

So it comes down to how much they want to complain vs how much the person quoting wants to risk.