{"id":22957,"date":"2025-05-03T06:50:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T06:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/pam-bondi-rolls-back-leak-inquiry-constraint-stemming-from-fox-news-case\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T06:50:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T06:50:20","slug":"pam-bondi-rolls-back-leak-inquiry-constraint-stemming-from-fox-news-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/pam-bondi-rolls-back-leak-inquiry-constraint-stemming-from-fox-news-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Pam Bondi Rolls Back Leak Inquiry Constraint Stemming From Fox News Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Attorney General Pam Bondi has rolled back a constraint on leak inquiries that the Justice Department imposed more than a decade ago, making it easier for investigators to get around a legal bar on search warrants to seize news gathering records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The safeguard was imposed in 2013 after the revelation that the F.B.I. had portrayed a Fox News reporter as a criminal to bypass restrictions on seizing reporters\u2019 emails.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The change was part of <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/01\/us\/politics\/attorney-general-ban-subpoenae-reporter-notes.html\" title=\"\">a revised regulation Ms. Bondi issued this week involving leak inquiries<\/a>. Most of the discussion has focused on how investigators can once again use court orders, subpoenas and search warrants to go after reporters\u2019 information, ending a flat ban on those tactics <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/19\/us\/politics\/reporter-records-justice-department.html\" title=\"\">imposed in 2021 by Attorney General Merrick B. Garland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Essentially, Ms. Bondi returned to the standard in place before Mr. Garland\u2019s intervention. But a close reading shows that in doing so, she also deleted a key section of the earlier regulation that had emerged from the Fox News incident. The section had limited the ability of investigators to sidestep a 1980 law that generally bars search warrants for newsroom records.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The omission was striking because many conservatives and Republicans were outraged by the events that led the department, under Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., to make the reform. The targeted reporter at Fox News, James Rosen, is now <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/insiders\/jamesrosen\/bio-805\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the chief White House correspondent for another conservative network, Newsmax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/newsgraphics\/documenttools\/59a2a395aa244aa8\/286971ad-full.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a memo last week<\/a> announcing the end of Mr. Garland\u2019s ban on using compulsory tools to go after reporters\u2019 communications records, notes or testimony, Ms. Bondi declared: \u201cThis Justice Department will not tolerate unauthorized disclosures that undermine President Trump\u2019s policies, victimize government agencies, and cause harm to the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But her memo did not mention any intent to also eliminate the change inspired by the Fox News incident, which remained in place under the first Trump administration. The department press office did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rcfp.org\/author\/gabe-rottman\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Gabe Rottman<\/a>, the vice president of policy for Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, warned that the deletion of the safeguard raised the possibility \u201cthat you could see a repeat of the James Rosen case\u201d and said it \u201craises significant First Amendment concerns.\u201d He <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rcfp.org\/doj-rescinds-news-media-guidelines-analysis\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">posted an analysis of the new regulation<\/a> on the group\u2019s blog.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cReducing or eliminating protections from journalists and their sensitive news gathering records impairs not just the press but the public,\u201d Mr. Rottman added. \u201cIt harms the public\u2019s ability to hold the government accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The issue centers on the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/42\/2000aa\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Protection Act of 1980<\/a>, which generally bans warrants to search for and seize news gathering materials. But the law contains an exception for cases in which reporters themselves are criminal suspects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2009, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/north-korea-intends-to-match-u-n-resolution-with-new-nuclear-test\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Rosen reported<\/a> on North Korea\u2019s plans for a nuclear test. The Justice Department opened a leak investigation and eventually prosecuted a State Department contractor, Stephen Jin-Woo Kim. (In 2014, Mr. Kim <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/08\/us\/politics\/ex-state-department-contractor-pleads-guilty-in-leak-case.html\" title=\"\">pleaded guilty<\/a> to making an unauthorized disclosure of restricted information and was sentenced to 13 months in prison.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was vanishingly rare in the 20th century for the Justice Department to bring criminal charges in a leak case. But it started to become common midway through the George W. Bush administration and under Mr. Holder\u2019s watch, the number continued to soar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Then, in May 2013, it came to light that investigators had <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/14\/us\/phone-records-of-journalists-of-the-associated-press-seized-by-us.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0\" title=\"\">seized<\/a> two months of Associated Press phone records and that they had <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/a-rare-peek-into-a-justice-department-leak-probe\/2013\/05\/19\/0bc473de-be5e-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">portrayed<\/a> Mr. Rosen\u2019s reporting for Fox News as criminal in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/sgp.fas.org\/jud\/kim\/warrant.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a search warrant application<\/a>, raising the prospect of an unprecedented prosecution of a reporter for publishing information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In seeking a warrant to gain access to Mr. Rosen\u2019s emails at Google, an F.B.I. agent told a judge that \u201cthere is probable cause to believe that the reporter has committed or is committing a violation\u201d of the Espionage Act \u2014 which criminalizes the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive national security information \u2014 \u201cas an aider and abettor and\/or co-conspirator\u201d of his source.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Critics across party lines expressed concerns that the Justice Department was going too far in its crackdown on leaks, and some lawmakers also <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/embed.documentcloud.org\/documents\/704899-goodlatte-sensenbrenner-holder-letter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">accused Mr. Holder of having misled Congress<\/a> in earlier testimony in which he said he opposed that idea and had never been involved in or heard discussions about any such potential prosecution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Justice Department officials countered that they never actually intended to prosecute Mr. Rosen, and had only portrayed him as a criminal suspect to invoke the exemption to the 1980 statute. Critics said the defense essentially amounted to an admission that the department had gamed the law in bad faith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThat tactic circumvents the clear intent of the Privacy Protection Act,\u201d Mr. Rottman said. \u201cThe law is meant to ensure that government can\u2019t seek search warrants for a journalist\u2019s records or unpublished stories unless it has probable cause to believe the journalist has actually done something really wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In response to the broader furor, President Obama <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/24\/us\/politics\/obama-offering-support-for-press-freedom-orders-review-of-leak-investigations.html\" title=\"\">ordered a review of procedures for leak investigations<\/a>, saying he was \u201ctroubled\u201d that investigative reporting could be stifled. Mr. Holder <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/31\/us\/politics\/holder-may-rein-in-prosecutors-on-leaks.html?smid=pl-share&amp;_r=0\" title=\"\">repeatedly<\/a> met with news media leaders, acknowledging criticism that the Justice Department had tipped too far toward aggressive law enforcement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/13\/us\/holder-to-tighten-rules-for-obtaining-reporters-data.html\" title=\"\">developed new guidelines for leak investigations<\/a>. Those included forbidding portraying reporters as co-conspirators in criminal leaks simply to circumvent the legal bar on secret search warrants for their reporting materials. His <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ecfr.gov\/on\/2017-01-20\/title-28\/chapter-I\/part-50\/section-50.10\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">regulation<\/a> said investigators could only invoke the exemption to the 1980 law if a reporter was officially under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Those rules stayed in place until early in the Biden administration, when it came to light that under the Trump administration, the Justice Department had seized the communications records of reporters at <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/04\/us\/politics\/times-reporter-emails-gag-order-trump-google.html\" title=\"\">The New York Times<\/a>, The Washington Post and CNN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Biden <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/12\/us\/politics\/government-leaks-garland-biden-administration.html\" title=\"\">ordered prosecutors to stop seizing reporters\u2019 phone and email data<\/a>. Mr. Garland established a regulation <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/26\/us\/politics\/justice-department-reporters.html\" title=\"\">barring<\/a> the Justice Department from using \u201ccompulsory legal process for the purpose of obtaining information from or records of members of the news media acting within the scope of news gathering, except in limited circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Last year, the House <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/raskin.house.gov\/2024\/1\/raskin-kiley-s-bipartisan-press-act-unanimously-passes-house-of-representatives\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">unanimously<\/a> passed a bipartisan bill to strengthen the ability of reporters to protect confidential sources. But it died in the Senate after <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/20\/us\/politics\/trump-press-act-freedom-reporters.html\" title=\"\">Mr. Trump instructed Republicans to \u201ckill this bill.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/02\/us\/politics\/justice-department-leak-inquiry-rules.html\">Source link 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