“For a news organization it is incredibly unusual,” Vigilante said. That kept the circle of people at the network who knew about what was going on to Vigilante and other attorneys for the network, while CNN President Jeff Zucker was given limited details, the network reported. While it is not uncommon for media organizations to receive subpoenas for information in court cases, what was particularly unusual about this instance was the ability of the DOJ to obtain a secrecy order. Vigilante said that representatives from the network, as well as the Times and Post, would meet on Monday with Attorney General Merrick Garland. After Starr received her letter, CNN’s chief White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins asked Biden about it, and he said that the practice was “simply, simply wrong.” The White House and the Justice Department announced over the weekend that they would end the practice of subpoenaing journalists’ phone and email records as they conducted leak investigations. There has been concern that the Biden Justice Department continued to pursue the cases rather than immediately suspend the pursuit of reporters’ records. “We were completely deprived of our right to defend ourselves,” Vigilante said on CNN on Wednesday. During the time frame that the government sought the records, Starr, their Pentagon correspondent, had reported on North Korea, Syria and Afghanistan. It’s still not clear why the government was seeking the records, but the DOJ said last month that Starr was not a target of an investigation. The DHS press office released one photo late Tuesday of a mother and child undergoing a health screening inside a border facility, but no wider shots to show conditions or sleeping arrangements.Donald Trump Arraignment: Fox News Tops Total Day And Primetime Viewers On Tuesday Among Cable News Networks MSNBC Draws Most During Hearing Coverage Multiple news organizations, including NBC News, have requested access to or photos from inside overcrowded border processing facilities holding unaccompanied migrant children they have been denied. Such measures were never instituted to such an extent throughout the Trump administration.īorder Patrol officials have been told to deny all media requests for “ride-alongs” with agents along the southern land border local press officers are instructed to send all information queries, even from local media, to the press office in Washington for approval and those responsible for cultivating data about the number of migrants in custody have been reminded not to share the information with anyone to prevent leaks, the officials said. As the crisis continues to worsen, the Biden administration has barred Border Patrol officials from speaking to the press or allowing journalists to tour border facilities, according to NBC News. Illegal immigrants continue to flood into the U.S., largely motivated by President Joe Biden’s lax policies on border security and soft messaging from his administration. Customs and Border Protection officials are reportedly under an unofficial “gag order” and barred from talking to the press amid a worsening situation at the border.
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