By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Sen. Jeff Sessions, who is Donald Trump’s choice for the next attorney general, said Tuesday at his confirmation hearing that he would not commit to keeping journalists from going to jail for refusing to leak information from anonymous sources.
By contrast, Attorney General Eric Holder said in 2015 that he would not jail reporters for doing their jobs, Huffington Post reports.
“If confirmed, will you commit to following the standards already in place at the Justice Department and will you make that commitment not to put reporters in jail for doing their jobs?” asked Sen. Amy Klobuchar, R-Minn.
“I’m not sure,” Sessions responded. “I have not studied those regulations.”
Sessions said that information from journalists could serve as a “mechanism through which unlawful intelligence is obtained.”
