A new US Justice Department report details for the first time guidelines under which the administration will seize the data of journalists, saying such moves will only be done as a “last resort” or during criminal investigations of those journalists.
Attorney General Eric Holder presented the guidelines as making a “meaningful difference” with respect to anti-media probes, but the guidelines themselves by and large insist that the policies were already in place and are just being codified into law.
The Justice Department did promise to create a “News Media Review Committee” that will advise officials on their probes, though the White House downplayed the impact of the new rules, saying that they still remain committed to preventing journalists from committing “dangerous leaks of classified national security information.”
The vagueness of the pledges, along with the focus on whistleblowers, suggests that the administration’s policy change is a distinction, but not a real difference, and the goal is still to scare government employees away from talking to the media.
Well, if alleged "attorney general" Eric Contempt Holder says so then how could it be otherwise.
And they are still just keeping up the doublethink.
Unless a journalist is themself is working for the government or authorized to access secret documents, they cannot “leak” a secret document. A government employee may “leak” the document to them, but it is not the reporter’s crime for publishing that. This is basic facts, but the US regime and it’s partners in crime wants to emulate Nixon’s crimes. Because they can.
What els did we expect, Holder is attorney so as Obama, so as that guy VU who was helping Bush with tortures and other illegal matters.
Another word smithing shell game. Rebranding without substance.
First they'll ask politely and if that doesn't work then, as a "last resort", they'll seize computer and phone records and, of course, the journalist.