Doj to recover the practice, to receive reporter data records in leak inquiries

The Ministry of Justice makes the information leaks to the news media. Attorney General Pam Bondi says that the prosecutors will be authorized again to use prime charges, court commands and search commands to search for government officials who “unauthorized disclosure” to make journalists.

New regulations that Bondi have announced in a memo to the employees received by The Associated Press can withdraw a bidue administration guideline in which the journalists were protected against the secret confiscation of their telephone documents during leak examinations – a practice that has long condemned groups and press freedom.

In the new regulations, news organizations must have to react to lectures “if they are approved at the reasonable level of the Ministry of Justice” and the public prosecutor also enable the use of court orders and search commands to “force information and certificates regarding the news media”.

The memo states that members of the press are “presumably justified to notice such investigative activities”, and lectures should be “tightly drawn”. Arrest warrants also have to “include logs to restrict the scope of the penetration into potentially protected materials or newspaper activities,” the memo said.

“The Ministry of Justice will not tolerate authorized disclosures that undermine the policy of President Trump, the governmental authorities victims of the American people,” wrote Bondi.

Before the new policy, the Attorney General is faced with whether intrusive tactics against the news media should be used, whether a reasonable basis for the assumption is that a crime has been committed and that the information that the government strives is required for law enforcement. The decision as to whether the prosecutors initially made appropriate attempts to “receive the information from alternative sources” and whether the government first “pursued negotiations with the member of the news media”.

The regulations arise when the Trump administration complained about a series of messages that withdrawn the curtain for internal decisions, secret service reviews and the activities of prominent civil servants such as Defense Minister Pete Hegseth. Tulsi Gabard, the director of the national intelligence, said this week that she made a trio of “criminal” transfers to the Ministry of Justice for intelligence community leaks for the media.

Political shift is also carried out under the continued examination of the highest levels of the Trump administration about its own falsifications when securing sensitive information. The national security advisor Michael Waltz was announced last month that he accidentally added a journalist to a group text using the signal encrypted messaging service, in which the best officials discussed plans to attack the Houthis. Hegseth has exposed himself to his own revelations about his use of signals, including a chat, which included his wife and brother, among other things.

In a statement, Bruce Brown, the Press's Reporters Committee, said in a statement that “a strong protection for journalists serves the American public by protecting the free flow of information.”

“Some of the most consistent reporting in US history – from Watergate to Maracter -Free Heacks after September 11th – were and will continue to be made possible because reporters were able to protect the identity of confidential sources and have revealed and report stories that are important for people throughout the political spectrum,” he said.

The guideline that Bondi was lifted was created by the then general adaptation general Merrick Garland after the officials of the Ministry of Justice made reporters aware of reporters in three news organizations, the Washington Post, the CNN and the New York Times- that their telephone records had been received in the last year of the Trump administration.

The new regulations from Garland marked an astonishing reversal of a practice of the seizures of telephone recordings that had passed over several presidential administrations. The Obama Ministry of Justice as part of the general general, Eric Holders, alerted the Associated Press in 2013 that it secretly received two months of telephone recordings by reporters and editors about what the top executive of the news cooperative described as “massive and examples of intrusion” in the news credit activities.

After the Blowback, Holder announced a revised series of guidelines for leak examinations, including the request for the approval of the highest levels in the department before pretending for news records could be issued.

However, the department saved its priority of confiscating the records of the journalists, and the latest information on the news media organizations show that the practice in the Trump Ministry of Justice was continued in the context of several studies.