Trump DOJ Rescinds Grand Jury Subpoenas of Journalists
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Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche at a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., May 4, 2026. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
The Trump Justice Department has quietly dropped its initiative to force journalists to testify about their sources in leak investigations.
Last month, I related that the DOJ had issued subpoenas to reporters from the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Axios. In the days prior to the commencement of the war against Iran that President Trump launched on February 28, they reported that the president had been admonished by military and national security officials about potential consequences, including that the regime in Tehran could close the Strait of Hormuz and conduct aerial strikes against America’s Arab allies in the Persian
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