According to experienced investigative journalist Catherine Herridge, CBS News” crossed the line” when it seized her monitoring data.  ,
On Thursday, Herridge testified in front of Congress in support of legislation that would protect editors and their solutions. Herridge was fired as a top investigative journalist for CBS News, and her files were sequestered shortly after her testimony.  ,
Herridge told the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and minimal state, “CBS News locked me out of the tower and seized hundreds of pages of my reporting records, including personal resource information.”  ,
” Various sources said they were concerned that by working with me to introduce federal corruption and misconduct, they may be identified and exposed”, she testified. ” I pushed again, and with the open support of my coalition, SAG- AFTRA, the data were returned” by CBS News.  ,
According to a document from the New York Post, Herridge may have been fired from CBS News after almost five years of service because she provided information about the Hunter Biden laptop story. She was likewise following up on specific counsel Robert Hur’s record citing President Joe Biden’s poor memory, and she was also reporting on that.
She was pursuing stories that the Biden White House and some Democratic behemoths were unwelcome, according to The Hill.
The spread journalist, who previously worked for Fox News for 23 years, testified that her dismissal by CBS News occurred the same month that she was “held in contempt of court for refusing to share my personal resources on a national security account.”
Herridge was required by a judge to show a cause for her investigation into a Chinese-American scholar. Her refusal to reveal the source placed her at the heart of a significant First Amendment controversy and made her a steadfast supporter of the PRESS Act, or Protect Investigators from Exploitative State Spying Act,  ,
Herridge told committee members,” The bipartisan PRESS Act would put an end to this kind of legal jeopardy that I have personally experienced in the national courts.” ” And in the future, more editors will work the disdain gauntlet in the face of uncertainty,” he added. This legislation may protect the rights of every current and future generation of American journalists.
Specifically, the PRESS Act provides safeguards to investigators and options,  , establishing obstacles to prevent , plaintiffs and the federal government from obtaining a writer’s files “except when there’s an immediate threat of violence, including violence, and in slander cases”, she said.  ,
The House passed the bill in January. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D- N. Y., said the Senate may soon pass the bill and send it to Biden’s desk for his signature.  ,
Herridge addressed members of Congress,” I hope that I am the last journalist who has two years in the federal courts fighting to protect my confidential sources.”  ,
