New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger said he and other media executives demanded in a meeting with Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday that the Department of Justice stop seizing journalists’ records during leak investigations, adding that “we will continue to push until our concerns are addressed.”
The statement comes after an off-the-record meeting on Monday between Garland and representatives from CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post about the Department of Justice’s policies.
“In today’s meeting, we sought a full accounting of what happened and requested that the Department of Justice codify that it will no longer seize journalists’ records during leak investigations,” Sulzberger’s statement said.