“Going forward, consistent with the President’s direction, this Department of Justice — in a change to its longstanding practice — will not seek compulsory legal process in leak investigations to obtain source information from members of the news media doing their jobs,” Anthony Coley, the department’s director of public affairs, said in a statement.
The commitment from the department comes just a day after The New York Times reported a top lawyer for the paper had revealed that the Justice Department, under the Trump and Biden administrations, had sought to obtain the email logs of four…
