Press win — Freedom of the Press Foundation: It sure looks like Jay Clayton lied to Congress about the NYT subpoenas

U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton, who signed the now-withdrawn subpoenas for several New York Times reporters, testified in front of Congress last week as Donald Trump’s nominee for the director of national intelligence. Under questioning from Sen. Michael Bennet , Clayton said that he followed the Trump administration’s media guidelines before signing the Times subpoenas. These guidelines include the following : “The government should have made all reasonable attempts to obtain the information, communications records, or business records from alternative sources.” Clayton proactively called out this “all reasonable attempts” plank in his testimony : “I’m confident that the procedures we have in place to protect the First Amendment and protect the freedom of the press … were followed. They depen…