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>>lxm+(OP)
> President Joe Biden recently criticized the policy, saying it's "simply wrong" to seize journalists' records.

The FBI is part of DOJ, which is an executive branch department under Biden's direct authority. If he thinks it's "simply wrong", he can just order them not to do it. He's not limited to "criticizing" it.

>>Turing+67
I think the article is conflating two points. Biden banned the practice of compelling journalists to provide the identity of their sources. That is totally unrelated to this subpoena, which is attempting to get a list of people that read a certain article.

Obviously it's also wrong to seek this information, but it's not what Biden was talking about in the quote.