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.
"Going forward, consistent with the President's direction, this Department of Justice – in a change to its longstanding practice – will not seek compulsory legal process in leak investigations to obtain source information from members of the news media doing their jobs," Justice Department spokesman Anthon Coley said in a statement Saturday.
Forgetful at the very least. Senile is unnecessarily pejorative. He's an old man who doesnt do much more than make political speeches in public.
> Biden's political experience
His team's political experience is more important, like almost all POTUS before him.
> “Going forward, consistent with the President’s direction, this Department of Justice – in a change to its longstanding practice – will not seek compulsory legal process in leak investigations to obtain source information from members of the news media doing their jobs,” Anthony Coley, Justice Department spokesman, said in a statement.
They are changing a "practice".
One uses laws to prevent practices one does not like, not "directions".
Obviously it's also wrong to seek this information, but it's not what Biden was talking about in the quote.
If you want a law to prevent this I'm not sure why you're criticizing Biden. He is the President, no the Legislature.
If you think there should be a law, then your complaint should be for congress.
That means they won’t subpoena journalists phone records when looking for whistleblowers. It doesn’t mean they won’t go after reader’s IP when looking for other suspects.