The guidelines signed by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Friday are intended to ensure a balance between protecting national security and safeguarding freedom of the press, a preamble says.
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Testimony to Parliament from the top editor of The Guardian illustrated the aggressive investigative and spying tactics increasingly faced by news organizations.
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What appeared to be a low point in a long campaign to rein in reporters and chill their sources may turn out to be a very big blessing in disguise.
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Donald Sachtleben, a former bomb technician, agreed to plead guilty to leaking classified details about a foiled bomb plot in Yemen, the Justice Department announced.
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The Justice Department on Monday asked a full federal appeals court not to hear arguments from lawyers for a New York Times reporter, who has been subpoenaed to testify in a leak case against a former C.I.A. officer.
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A lawyer for James Risen, a reporter for The New York Times, has asked Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to withdraw a subpoena requiring him to testify about a confidential source.
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After the United States government won an antitrust suit against Apple, it now wants to discipline Apple in other markets where it does business, like movies and music.
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The new guidelines announced by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. would make it harder for prosecutors to obtain calling records from telephone companies without giving news organizations notice.
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Eddy Cue, a senior vice president at Apple, denied the government’s charges that the company was working with e-book publishers to raise prices.
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A Justice Department inquiry of a Fox News reporter has spurred outrage from some reliable critics of the press.
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House Republicans were told that the attorney general’s Congressional testimony was “accurate and consistent.”
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The Justice Department’s lawsuit that accuses Apple of colluding with publishers to raise e-book prices will begin in United States District Court.
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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., under fire over investigative tactics at the Justice Department, has opened internal discussions over new limits on seeking information that could identify reporters’ sources.
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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., a target of attacks from Republicans, faces fresh complaints over the Justice Department’s campaign against leaks to journalists.
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Fox News has denied that it knew about the subpoena, while Justice Department officials have said they sent notification 90 days after obtaining the telephone records.
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Despite President Obama’s conciliatory gesture of a review of Justice Department investigations involving journalists, some reporters say that chill has already set in.
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President Obama asked Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to scrutinize Justice Department investigations and said he was “troubled” that such inquiries could hinder reporters.
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Officials searched the personal e-mails and tried to track the movements of a Fox News correspondent, James Rosen, in investigating a leak.
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Gary Pruitt said the Obama administration’s handling of a leak investigation had already diminished journalists’ capacity to report on the government.
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The company is scheduled to go to trial in June over the Justice Department’s accusation that it conspired with five publishing houses to fix prices on electronic books.
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