Lynch: No reporter will go to jail for doing his or her job

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Loretta Lynch is repeating a pledge from her predecessor that no journalists will be sent to jail for doing their job.

The Justice Department says Lynch made the commitment during a private meeting Thursday with lawyers for media organizations.

Former Attorney General Eric Holder promised last year that the Justice Department would not send journalists to jail for work they do as part of their job. Lynch said Thursday that she agreed with that position and would continue to uphold that pledge.

Holder had assembled a working group of media organization representatives in response to concerns about Justice Department actions, such as secretly seizing telephone records of Associated Press reporters and editors in a national security leak investigation.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/1f90b032ae4848f98010101386aca79b/lynch-no-reporter-will-go-jail-doing-his-or-her-job

[stonecutter357]

1. K&R!

[tularetom]

2. Could a former president (or VP) go to jail for NOT doing his job?

Seems to me that AG Lynch should spend more time exploring that issue.

[Babel_17]

3. Merely an extension of the long held principle

Merely an extension of the long held principle that, with a few exceptions, no white collar individuals should go to jail. If key demographics of voters, alongside major donators, don't care about certain classes of crime, then really, what business is it of the DOJ?

Wake them up when the voters, and the editorial boards of institutions like The Washington Post all demand that it's long past time to do something. This is a democracy and the DOJ should only act when the voters are incensed when they don't.

But, sarcasm aside, real journalism has been seeing tough times and deserves more respect. So, this is good news, on the face of it.

[Demeter]

4. RIIGHT!

We get the Brits to arrest them at Heathrow, interrogate them and strip them of their computers. No need to dirty our hands with it.

And as for the whistleblowers, it's either prison (with torture) or exile.

So that's settled.

[cprise]

5. They'll keep locking up people who divulge info to reporters

..and they'll keep collecting all sorts of minute-by-minute details about the reporters lives... Just In Case.

[potone]

6. Exactly.

How far have we sunk that saying that reporters will not be arrested for dong their jobs even needs to be stated.