# 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](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2013-obama-doj-charges-eight-under-espionage-act)
- Source: The Obama Administration and the Press. https://cpj.org/reports/2013/10/obama-and-the-press-us-leaks-surveillance-post-911/
- 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.

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