"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.
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.