CBS News Returns Confidential Files of Catherine Herridge

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CBS News on Monday finally returned confidential files belonging to fired investigative reporter Catherine Herridge amid mounting pressure from the House Judiciary Committee and the union representing the journalist, The NY Post is reporting.

Herridge — who is in the middle of a key First Amendment case — had been probing the Hunter Biden laptop scandal when the acclaimed journalist was shockingly fired as part of mass layoffs by parent company Paramount Global nearly two weeks ago.

Her personal files — along with her work laptop, which may have contained other confidential info — were immediately confiscated and locked away at the CBS News office in Washington, DC.

“Catherine Herridge’s union representative picked up her materials this morning,” a CBS News rep confirmed on Monday. A spokesperson for SAG-AFTRA, the union representing CBS News employees, confirmed that several boxes containing Herridge’s reporting materials were returned.

“The resolution of this matter sends a strong message of protection for basic First Amendment principles,” the union said.

The Post reported on Friday that the House Judiciary Committee is launching a probe into the network’s shocking seizure of the reporter’s files as part of her termination.

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“The unprecedented actions of CBS News threaten to chill good journalism and ultimately weaken our nation’s commitment to a free press,” committee wrote in a letter to CBS News president Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews.

Ciprian-Matthews and top brass at the network have until March 1 to provide information on who handled Herridge’s files and who ordered them to be retained, among other things.