unauthorized. gates directive seems to require all interview request from the national or international media be cleared through assistant defense secretary for public affairs. defense official tells fox this is not a response to the rolling stone article, but admits that the article likely reinforced gates decision to send out the memo now. it shook up the military. and mcchrystal stunned everyone. but defense official says the memo was in the works before that. gates had previous concerned about the leaks and his order says, leaking of classified information is against the law, cannot be tolerated and will, when proven, lead to the prosecution of those found to be engaged in such activity. naturally, reporters worry if all interviews have to be cleared through the pentagon, the sources will be less frank and they ll want to get permission before speaking and it will slow down our news-gathering. but defense spokesman doug wilson says it just means