Lawyer General Lifts prohibited the notes of preload reporters in leak examinations

The Ministry of Justice presented a revised regulation for leak examinations on Thursday and restored the ability of the Federal Investigators to use court orders, arrest warrants and lectures in order to pursue the telephone documents, notes or certificates from reporters under certain circumstances.

The move of the Attorney General Pam Bondi returns a guideline of its predecessor Merrick B. Garland, which was appointed by former President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who has banned the information from reporters in leak examinations.

After two decades, Mr. Garland's politics was a big change in which the Ministry of Justice had increasingly become aggressive in the persecution of Lecks as a crime, a tactic that was disappearing in the 20th century, but became routine in the 21st administrations of both parties.

Mr. Garland changed politics after the revelation in 2021 that the Ministry of Justice under the President of the General William P. Barr during the first term of office of President Trump in the New York Times, Washington Post and the CNN Email records had been pursued by reporters. At that time, Mr. Garland said that a flat ban on such tactics was necessary to “do the crucial work, to inform the public without fear of legal consequences”.

Ms. Bondi had indicated that she wanted to roll down Mr. Garland's rule last week in a memo and had decoded Lecks. The Ministry of Justice, Ms. Bondi, wrote: “Unauthorized disclosures that President Trump's policy undermined, government authorities undermine the victim of government agencies and inflict damage to the American people.”

In a document in which the new ordinance is described, it should “intentionally issue concerns about the Federal Government's employees with regard to the Federal Government's employees or otherwise protected information to the media or the purpose of undermining the legal obligations and guidelines of the executive authorities.

The media lawyers on Thursday morning were equipped with the document, but at first glance, the language of the regulation appeared in many ways to return to the guidelines of the department before the changes published by the government of Obama were issued by Mr. Garland.

In general, the rules that Ms. Bondi can unsubscribe before the investigators can use mandatory legal processes to search for information about messages, such as instructions on telephone companies to provide protocols for communication or lectures for the notes or the certificate from reporters.

The new regulation contains a version of a pre-Garland guideline in which the investigators of states should exploit other potential means to obtain the evidence they apply for before pursuing the information from reporters. “The government should have undertaken all appropriate attempts to receive information, communication documents or business documents from alternative sources,” the regulation said.

The Ordinance also states that the investigators should generally pursue negotiations with the member of the news media before a telephone company has to hand over the records of the journalist, but Ms. Bondi enables you to make an exception if she decides such conversations, “a significant threat to the integrity of the investigation, the risk of national security or an immediate risk of death or serious damage Bodily harm ”.