Federal Prosecutors Attacked Me for My Reporting — and They’re Doing It to Hide Info From the Public
If the Biden administration is serious about protecting press freedoms, officials from Washington might want to have a stern talk with federal prosecutors in Detroit. Trevor Aaronson June 20 2024, 11:22 a.m. This is a story about a story — one that I haven’t finished reporting. Federal prosecutors are so consumed by my efforts to report on a terrorism court case that they accused me in a recent filing of having “improper motives.” They said that, by doing routine reporting, I was somehow colluding with a terrorism defendant to “taint the jury pool and undermine the fairness of the trial.” These dangerous claims are the subject of an evidentiary hearing in U.S. District Court in Detroit on Thursday. My reporting so far suggests potential constitutional violations. The attack by the Justice Department should be seen for what it is: a breathtaking assault against journalism by the Biden administration. Although President Joe Biden boasts that his administration defends press freedoms around the world, his Justice Department’s public claims are an egregious attack against me filled with baseless assumptions and statements taken wildly out of context. Prosecutors appear to have subjected me… Read More
