[advance_copy]

Nothing in the 1st Amendment allows the press to hide information about crime. Leaking classified information is a crime and, if the media have sources who committed that crime, the media can be forced to identify the criminals.

[Sacajaweau]

Sessions won’t play the medias’ game. “No questions were taken”.

[Fhios]

What’s the difference between WP and Wikileaks and Edward Snowden?

[Mouton]

Did the author forget the fox reporters harassed by the brown bomber’s DOJ over their source?

[Fantasywriter]

I’m not holding my breath.

[FreeReign]

Nothing in the 1st Amendment allows the press to hide information about crime. Leaking classified information is a crime and, if the media have sources who committed that crime, the media can be forced to identify the criminals.

I like your response better than Sessions'.

[Nifster]

That’s fine. The press will claim first amendment priveledge. The court will find contempt. They will spend time in jail and become the cause Celebrex....to wit Judith Miller

[Pilgrim's Progress]

If you are watching Sheppard Smith, you are watching MSNBC on Fox.

[Major Matt Mason]

I literally laughed out loud at the headline - Sessions won't do a damn thing. When it comes to the Swamp, he is all talk and no action. Mueller has only been at it for a couple of months and is already onto a grand jury. We are 7 months into Trump's presidency, and Sessions is just now talking about maybe going after leakers? What a joke. DHS is probably a better fit for Sessions at this point - he doesn't have what it takes to do the job that has to be done. There is blatant criminality that is pretty much right in our faces, and they can't make any arrests? Sorry, I'm not buying the excuses anymore, Lord knows the GOP has a freaking encyclopedia full of excuses. /rant

[Mr. K]

Throw them in jail for being COMPLICIT in the crime of revealing classified information.

[PMAS]

Sessions said “Don’t do it.” - that should work.

[thoughtomator]

Let’s stop pretending these are reporters and start calling them what they really are: spies. Enemy spies.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Put them in jail until they talk.

[frnewsjunkie]

—Sessions MAY Force Reporters To Reveal Sources Of Leaks—

MAY??? That’s as much as we get? MAY?? Nothing there!

Trump didn’t say “I MAY keep my promises”... there isn’t any MAY/perhaps in his plans.

[mass55th]

News sources are saying four people have been charged with leaking, but no names have been released by the DOJ yet.

[ichabod1]

That’s it? That’s the big announcement on leaking he was going to make on Friday? Now a grand jury on the Trumpsha hoax but still no grand juries impaneled by the Justice department.

[Leep]

You criminals better watch out!

Sessions MAY lower the boom any day now.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

The fifth offers protection against self-incrimination, but when there is no chance they will face criminal penalties, they cannot use the fifth. I’m sure that’s what he is getting at. The press has their well rehearsed protection of sources routine, but there is, in reality, no federal press “shield” law, nor should there ever be one. If there was a press shield law, leaking would be refined as an art form - the media would just become a massive leak conduit.

[jonrick46]

When did the press start claiming they have the First Amendment right to protect their sources even when the information is criminal by its nature?

[Lurker]

Unauthorized possession of classified material is a crime no matter who is doing it.

L

[smileyface]

Will he start waterboarding?