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Merrick Garland says he'll enforce DOJ's pledge against spying on journalists CNN 10 hrs ago By Brian Stelter, CNN Business © Susan Walsh/AP Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool) Attorney General Merrick Garland says he will work to put the Justice Department's new pledge against spying on journalists into regulation, so that the promise has some teeth. Garland met with executive...

Justice Dept. Will Toughen Rules for Seizing Lawmakers’ Data, Garland Says Attorney General Merrick B. Garland met with news media executives amid fallout over prosecutors’ seizures of records from phone and tech companies for leak inquiries. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland has said that a new Justice Department policy on leak investigations would be “the most protective of journalists’ ability to do their jobs in history.”Credit...Tom Brenner for The New York Times June 14, 2021 WASHINGTON — The Justice Department will tighten its rules for when law enforcem...

This was until early june that this fight was going on between our legal counsel, david mccraw, in secret with prosecutors at the justice department. this wasn't something that happened into fef weeks into when merrick garland took over. this is something that was going on close to almost the six-month mark of biden being in office. and now the justice department has completely reversed itself and says they don't want -- they will not do this. is that because they're embarrassed by what happened? why is it that the fight continued under merrick garland for the metadata from my emails? >> right...

Washington Post publisher Fred Ryan slammed the Biden administration in an opinion piece published Sunday for seeking email records belonging to

The <em>New York Times</em> revealed on Friday that the US Justice Department under both the Trump and Biden administrations secretly attempted to seize the email logs of four of its journalists in violation of freedom of the press rights.