The Justice Department announced yesterday that it will no longer use subpoenas or other legal methods to obtain information from journalists about their sources, the Washington Post website reports today (June 6, 2021).
"The Department of Justice -- in a change to its long-standing practice -- will not seek compulsory legal process in leak investigations to obtain information from members of the news media doing their jobs," Anthony Coley, the department's top spokesman, said in a statement.
President Joe Biden said on May 21 that he would not allow the Justice Department to seize journalists' phone and email records.
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