{"id":2583501,"date":"2026-03-24T21:32:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T01:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-suggests-war-departments-label-for-anthropic-looks-to-cripple-company\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T21:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T01:37:09","slug":"judge-suggests-war-departments-label-for-anthropic-looks-to-cripple-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-suggests-war-departments-label-for-anthropic-looks-to-cripple-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge suggests War Department&#8217;s label for Anthropic looks to &#8216;cripple&#8217; company"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjudge-suggests-war-departments-label-for-anthropic-looks-to-cripple-company%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2583501&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A California judge questioned the Pentagon\u2019s decision to label Anthropic a \u201csupply-chain risk,\u201d suggesting the designation may be punishment for Anthropic\u2019s efforts to publicize a contracting dispute and could violate the First Amendment. At a San Francisco hearing, U.S. District Judge Rita Lin reviewed Anthropic\u2019s two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congresss-sex-abuse-enforcement-body-nailed-for-fraud\/\" title=\"Congress&#039;s Sex Abuse Enforcement Body Nailed For Fraud\">federal lawsuits challenging<\/a> the designation after tense negotiations over the use of Claude, the company\u2019s AI chatbot. The Pentagon argued the label targets risk management and authorization for DoD use,while Anthropic contends the move amounts to retaliation aimed at suppressing scrutiny of government contracting. The hearing ended without a ruling, wiht Lin indicating an order would likely be issued in a few days; lawyers debated the scope of authority under 10 U.S.C. \u00a7 3252 and whether DoD could categorically bar contractors from using Anthropic\u2019s products for non-DoD work. The case highlights broader questions about how much control the military should exert over AI technology and how private AI firms should accommodate government demands.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Judge suggests Pentagon&rsquo;s &lsquo;supply-chain risk&rsquo; label for Anthropic attempts to &lsquo;cripple&rsquo; company<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2536439\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>A <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/california\/\">California<\/a> judge said on Tuesday that it appears the Department of War&rsquo;s decision to label <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/anthropic\">Anthropic<\/a> a &ldquo;supply-chain risk&rdquo; amid a dispute about how the department can use the platform &ldquo;looks like an attempt to cripple&rdquo; the company.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Rita Lin started the Tuesday hearing by saying in part, &ldquo;It looks like DoW is punishing Anthropic for trying to bring public scrutiny to this contracting dispute, which, of course, would be a violation of the First Amendment.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4501939\/mamdani-taco-bell-dunkin-mukbang-celebrating-franchisee-settlement\/\">Mamdani chows on Taco Bell and Dunkin&#8217;s mukbang celebrating franchisee settlement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4501817\/biden-doj-more-subpoenas-kash-patel-gop-records\/\">Biden DOJ sought more subpoenas for Patel and Republicans than previously known, records show<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/4501043\/trans-inmates-ms-13-member-lawsuit-funded-procedures\/\">Transgender inmates, including MS-13 member, join lawsuit to continue taxpayer-funded sex change procedures<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Anthropic has filed two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-is-right-about-birthright-citizenship\/\" title=\"Trump Is Right About Birthright Citizenship\">federal lawsuits arguing<\/a> the Trump administration&rsquo;s decision to label it a security risk amounted to illegal retaliation. Tuesday&rsquo;s hearing was for the case filed in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pentagon\">Pentagon<\/a> tagged the AI company as a &ldquo;supply-chain risk,&rdquo; a designation usually reserved for foreign entities, after bitter negotiations between&nbsp;Anthropic&nbsp;and the department failed to make a breakthrough regarding the use of Claude, its AI chatbot.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&rsquo;s hearing ended without a decision, with Lin, a Biden-appointed judge, telling lawyers from both sides she &ldquo;anticipate[s] issuing an order in the next few days.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic&nbsp;wanted assurances from the Pentagon that its AI chatbot would not be used for mass domestic surveillance or to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anthropic-sues-trump-administration-over-national-security-risk-label\/\" title=\"Anthropic sues Trump administration over national security risk label\">operate fully autonomous weapons<\/a>. War Department officials disputed the claims, arguing that they would not allow any private company to dictate how it uses systems in war and maintained that they wanted complete authorization for &ldquo;any lawful use.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> announced on Feb. 27 that every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">federal agency<\/a> must &ldquo;immediately&rdquo; stop using Claude amid the dispute, and shortly thereafter,&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/secwar\/status\/2027507717469049070?s=46&amp;t=w3_umnYjt1oZp7aUdyD1Cw\">Hegseth stated<\/a> that &ldquo;no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with&nbsp;Anthropic.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump administration attorney Eric Hamilton said during the hearing, &ldquo;The worry is that Anthropic, instead of merely raising concerns and pushing back, will say we have a problem with what DoW is doing and will manipulate the software &hellip; so it doesn&rsquo;t operate in the way DoW expects and wants it to.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth&rsquo;s statement, specifically stating that any company that works with Anthropic cannot also do business with DoW, was a focus of Tuesday&rsquo;s hearing. Hamilton acknowledged that he has no legal authority to bar military contractors from using Anthropic for work unrelated to the department.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton said it&rsquo;s his &ldquo;understanding&rdquo; that the department&rsquo;s &ldquo;present concern is with DoW personnel and contracting partners using anthropic for DoW work, not for non-DoW work.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton acknowledged that&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/10\/3252\">10 U.S.C. &sect; 3252<\/a>, which grants the secretary the ability to exclude certain companies from competing for contracts, &ldquo;does not go as far&rdquo; as Hegseth&rsquo;s statement.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Standing here today, I&rsquo;m not aware of any authorities that would permit DoW to categorically bar contractors from using a company&rsquo;s products or services for non-DoW work,&rdquo; Hamilton said. &ldquo;But to reiterate, this post does not itself impose obligations on contractors or sub-contractors; that instead flows through the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >supply chain risk designations<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4500774\/israel-fit-us-iran-talks-benjamin-netanyahu\/\">HOW DOES ISRAEL FIT IN THE US-IRAN TALKS?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When asked by Lin why Hegseth included the comment in his longer statement even though it &ldquo;has no legal effect,&rdquo; he responded, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The case has sparked a broader conversation about the military&rsquo;s use of artificial intelligence in weapons systems and the level of deference AI companies should give to the government in how their technology is used.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge: Anthropic&#8217;s supply-chain label aims to cripple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2671,"featured_media":2583502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-collage-9bp0f7sax-1772227466304-e1772227554217.jpg?1774385370&amp;w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[71946,62774,4151,51639,5270],"class_list":["post-2583501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-ai-regulation-2","tag-anthropic","tag-judiciary","tag-law-2","tag-regulation"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-collage-9bp0f7sax-1772227466304-e1772227554217.jpg?1774385370&amp;w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2583501"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2583505,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583501\/revisions\/2583505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2583502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2583501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2583501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2583501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}