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Garland bars prosecutors from seizing reporters' records

by Michael BalsamoEric Tucker
| July 19, 2021 9:27 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday formally prohibited federal prosecutors from seizing the records of journalists in leak investigations, with limited exceptions, reversing years of department policy.

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