The Justice Department formally announced new rules designed to greatly limit prosecutors ability to obtain phone and email records of journalists.The rules, unveiled by Attorney General Merrick Garland, came after the revelation that the DOJ subpoenaed information from reporters for CNN, The Washington Post and The New York Times, part of an effort that started during Donald Trump’s administration and largely played out without the journalists’ knowledge.
The journalists were not targets of an investigation, but were believed to be part of an effort to probe the source of leaks to the news media.Garland wrote in a memo (read it here) that the department “will no longer use compulsory legal process for the purpose of obtaining information
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