“Given the documented reporting on #government #leak investigations & the government’s well chronicled efforts to stop them, allowing the government’s filter team to search a reporter’s work product — most of which consists of unrelated information from #confidential #sources — is the equivalent of leaving the government’s fox in charge of the #WashingtonPost’s henhouse,” Porter wrote.
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Porter also sharply criticized prosecutors for not briefing him in their search warrant application on a federal #law that protects #reporters against searches in many situations: the #PrivacyProtectionAct of 1980. Their failure to inform him about the law before he approved the warrant in the case “has seriously undermined the Court’s confidence in the government’s disclosures in this proceeding,” he wrote.
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