Attorneys for The New York Times leave federal court in New York on July 23, 2026, the day the Justice Department withdrew subpoenas issued to the paper’s reporters. Dear Friend of Press Freedom: Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge has, by our count, paid at least $8,800 in fines for refusing to reveal a confidential source. In the meantime, the Senate confirmed Jay Clayton as director of national intelligence even though his former prosecutorial office issued politically motivated subpoenas targeting New York Times reporters and their relatives for embarrassing the president, and then he apparently lied to Congress about it. Join our email list to stay up to date on the issues and learn how you can help protect journalists and sources everywhere. As DNI, Jay Clayton is a threat to press freedom Earlier this week we wrote about the false and misleading congressional testimony by then-prosecutor Jay Clayton — President Donald Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence — that his team had followed Justice Department guidelines in issuing subpoenas targeting New York Times reporters who wrote about Trump’s unsafe Qatari vanity plane.