According to Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), US Senator Jeff Sessions has said he is unsure whether he would commit to following guidelines adopted by Attorney General Eric Holder in 2015 that make it harder, though not impossible, for the Department of Justice to subpoena journalists' records.
It has been reported that Sessions' comments recorded in a C-Span video hearing, were in response to a question from Senator Amy Klobuchar about whether he would commit to not jailing journalists for their work. Sessions said that he would review the guidelines, noted "a broadly recognised and proper deference to the news media" was in place, but warned that the press could be a "mechanism through which unlawful intelligence is obtained."
Although CPJ had urged Sessions to commit to journalists protection, the ideal of freedom of expression is likely to face an attack by the upcoming Trump administration. Trump was extremely critical to every view that went against the US Presidential election campaigns spearheaded by Democrat Clinton and him. He was even found threatening his detractors.
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