basically they had gone too far and put in place a series of regulations that are supposed to prevent this from happening without the justice department going to the media organization and trying to negotiate some sort of accommodation in advance. and it is obvious that that didn t happen in this case. what s supposed to happen under these new regulations is the justice department, before it subpoenas a reporter s information, because this is important, this is different from subpoenaing a reporter s testimony. the reporter doesn t know if you ve gone and gotten their e-mails or gone and gotten their phone records. they have no ability to go to court to try to block it. the justice department under holder put in place new regulations that would allow for some kind of negotiation between the media outlet and the justice department and give the media outlet the opportunity to go to court to try to seek to try to block the justice department from seizing these records. it appeared that