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Jeff Sessions won’t make ‘blanket commitment’ to not jailing journalists

By Kelly Cohen
Published October 18, 2017 7:08pm ET
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Jeff Sessions won’t make ‘blanket commitment’ to not jailing journalists
"We have not taken any aggressive action against the media at this point," Sessions said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) | Carolyn Kaster

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he could not make a “blanket commitment” to putting journalists behind bars for “doing their jobs.”

“Can you commit to not jailing reporters for doing their jobs?” Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., asked the attorney general during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday.

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