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I don’t know if I can make a blanket commitment to that effect.
But I would say this, we have not taken any aggressive action against the media at this point. We have matters that involve the most serious national security issues that put our country at risk, and we will utilize the authorities that we have legally and constitutionally if we have to.
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We always try to find an alternative way, as you probably know, Senator Klobuchar, to directly confronting media persons. But that is not a total blanket protection.
— Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s chilling response in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee when asked by Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) to confirm that he will not put reporters in jail “for doing their jobs.”