FAC joined a coalition of a dozen leading press freedom defense groups that sent a new letter to FBI Director Kash Patel in response to FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino’s recent announcement the Bureau would be reopening an investigation into the source of a leak of a draft Supreme Court ruling in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case, which was published by Politico in May 2022.
The letter, organized by Defending Rights & Dissent, notes: “As organizations that defend press freedom, free expression, and civil liberties, we are deeply concerned by the potentially chilling nature of this investigation on First Amendment-protected newsgathering.”