The DOJ Deleted Language About Press Freedom And Racial Gerrymandering From Its Internal Manual

[DonViejo]

The Justice Department Deleted Language About Press Freedom And Racial Gerrymandering From Its Internal Manual

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein ordered a review of the US Attorneys’ Manual, which features high-level policy statements as well as practical guidance to prosecutors on how to do their jobs.

Posted on April 29, 2018, at 3:10 p.m.

Zoe Tillman
BuzzFeed News Reporter
Washington, DC

Since the fall, the US Department of Justice has been overhauling its manual for federal prosecutors.

In: Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ tough-on-crime policies. Out: A section titled “Need for Free Press and Public Trial.” References to the department’s work on racial gerrymandering are gone. Language about limits on prosecutorial power has been edited down.

The changes include new sections that underscore Sessions’ focus on religious liberty and the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on government leaks — there is new language admonishing prosecutors not to share classified information and directing them to report contacts with the media.

Not all changes are substantive: Long paragraphs have been split up, outdated contacts lists have been updated, and citations to repealed laws have been removed.

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1. kick

[Varaddem]

2. Bush years

Remember Monica good link saying “ they weren’t following list “ about the US attorneys were let go. 3 million name sent to a BBC reporter site George W. Bush.org. We dropped this ball a long time ago.Jeb and Catherine Harris in 2000. I think sessions was in the thick of this. Those making it hard for people to exercise their rights to vote should have that downside of Two years in prison.

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. The story just above yours on the feed...

Is about CBS bragging how Trump might be bad for America, but great for CBS.

Wonder how they feel about their return on investment.

You could have made just as much money ragging on a competent President Clinton every damn day for 8 years, CBS! You are responsible for every boneheaded Trump decree!

Michele Wolf didn’t go far enough, imo.