A federal judge is asking why the new Justice Department policies on targeting journalists should not be applied in a criminal case against a host on Infowars, a far right conspiracy theory website. Federal judge Zia Faruqui said prosecutors would not provide details on their compliance with the DOJ new policy in pursuing an arrest warrant for talk-show host Owen Shroyer for alleged participation in the January 6 insurrection. (Wall Street Journal, August 24, 2021, by Aruna Viswanatha and Rebecca Balhaus)
The DOJ prosecutors refused to put the details of their compliance on the court record. The prosecutors wrote a letter to Faruqui saying that the internal policies of the department were of no concern to him in that they did not pertain to the question of probable cause. (Politico, August 24, 2021, by Josh Gerstein)