“Attorney General Merrick B. Garland met with representatives from the news media today following the recent notifications that the Justice Department had obtained reporter records in the course of leak investigations. As previously announced, the department will no longer use compulsory process to obtain reporters’ source information when they are doing their jobs. The group had a productive conversation about the need for new rules implementing the policy change.”
“During the discussion the department made clear that reporters were never the subject or the target of the recent investigations. The Attorney General and the media representatives agreed on the need for strong, durable rules. In the coming weeks the Attorney General will develop and distribute to the field a memo detailing the current policy. The Attorney General committed to working with members of the news media to codify the memo setting out these new rules into regulation” – Justice Department statement via CNN’s Brian Stelter.