I see the ghost of J. Edgar was around
The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Washington Post journalists’ phone records and tried to obtain their email records over reporting they did in the early months of the Trump administration on Russia’s role in the 2016 election
The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Washington Post journalists’ phone records and tried to obtain their email records over reporting they did in the early months of the Trump administration on Russia’s role in the 2016 election
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1390788710053130241
The last such high-profile seizure of reporters’ comma records came several years ago as part of an inv into the source of stories by a reporter who worked at BuzzFeed, Politico and the NYT. The stories at issue there also centered around 2017 reporting on the investigation into
Russian election interference.
It is rare for the DOJ to use subpoenas to get records of reporters in leak investigations, and such moves must be approved by the AG. The letters do not say precisely when the reporters’ records were taken and reviewed, but a dept spokesman said
It is rare for the DOJ to use subpoenas to get records of reporters in leak investigations, and such moves must be approved by the AG. The letters do not say precisely when the reporters’ records were taken and reviewed, but a dept spokesman said
the decision to do so came in 2020
So they were after the sources?
The targets of these investigations are not the news media recipients but rather those with access to the national defense info who provided it to the media and thus failed to protect it as lawfully req’d
So they were after the sources?
The targets of these investigations are not the news media recipients but rather those with access to the national defense info who provided it to the media and thus failed to protect it as lawfully req’d
Yup, sources. I’d call that an overreach
The letters to the three reporters also noted that prosecutors got a court order to obtain “non content communication records” for the reporters’ work email accounts, but did not obtain such records.
The letters to the three reporters also noted that prosecutors got a court order to obtain “non content communication records” for the reporters’ work email accounts, but did not obtain such records.
Motherfuckers!
toward the end of the time period mentioned in the letters those reporters wrote a story about classified US intel intercepts indicating that in 2016, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) had discussed the Trump campaign with Sergey Kislyak, who was Russia’s amb to the US
toward the end of the time period mentioned in the letters those reporters wrote a story about classified US intel intercepts indicating that in 2016, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) had discussed the Trump campaign with Sergey Kislyak, who was Russia’s amb to the US
The seizure of reporters’ phone records has been a controversial topic in recent years, as both the Trump and Obama administrations escalated efforts to stop leaks and prosecute government officials who disclose secrets to reporters.
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