Posted on 07/21/2021 6:30:02 AM PDT by ransomnote
The U.S. Department of Justice today formally adopted a new policy that restricts the use of compulsory process to obtain information from, or records of, members of the news media acting within the scope of newsgathering activities. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced the new policy, effective immediately, in a memo to Department leadership.
The Attorney General also reiterated his support for the durability of these policy changes. To further protect members of the news media in a manner that will be enduring, he asked the Deputy Attorney General to undertake a review process to further explain, develop, and codify the policy announced today into Department regulations. He also reaffirmed the Department’s support for congressional legislation to protect members of the news media.
Is this See No Evil Hear No Evil? The government and the MSM are corruption elites who marry, interbreed, and abuse the public together. WHAT is the goal here?
The goal is to prevent the DOJ from going after leakers/whistleblowers. This gives the DOJ cover to leak anything to reporters without any repercussions
The goal is to prevent the DOJ from going after leakers/whistleblowers. This gives the DOJ cover to leak anything to reporters without any repercussions
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Oh! Thank you. That makes perfect sense!
Good catch. You are right.
It gives cover to reporters so they can outright lie with no repercussions. Not much different than now really.
The Democrats and their Minions are the Real Extremists and they are fooling NO One
I’ll say one thing for the Left, they protect their own..................
In the age of the internet, cell phone videos, Twitter, and sites like Free Republic we are all journalists and reporters now.
Protection racket for the libtard leak buddies in the media routinely used by government libtards fbi deep state.
We all know it.
DOJ leftist get to decide who is a legitimate reporter engaged in legitimate news gathering.
Project Veritas will be be classified as engaging in ill-legitimate news gathering and they will be classified as ill-legitimate reporters, therefore DOJ will come after them to shut them down.
Assault on First Amendment big time.
Yes we are but the DOJ will make that call for everyone. Bet we aren’t going be on any “approved” reporters list or approved news gathering organization.
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