Claim 64

Prosecutions were pursued case by case rather than under one publicly stated blanket policy.

Published 2026-09-22. Last reviewed 2026-09-22. 1 source.

Statement: Prosecutions were pursued case by case rather than under one publicly stated blanket policy.
Field: stated_justification
Value: Not stated in the sources reviewed as a single policy statement
About: incident 2013-obama-doj-charges-eight-under-espionage-act
Source: The Obama Administration and the Press
Publisher: Committee to Protect Journalists
Method: outlet report
Checked: 2026-09-22
Confidence: medium
Status: current
Source date: 2013-10-10

Quotation from the source

It was never a conscious decision to bring more of these cases than we ever had. It was a combination of things.