as in the WaPo and CNN cases, Trump admin DOJ obtained the records in 2020, for reporting in 2017.
https://twitter.com/KimZetter/status/1400252742124204034
NYT: DOJ did not say which article was being investigated. But the lineup of reporters & timing suggests related to classified info reported in 4/22/2017 article about a doc obtained from Russia by hackers that influenced Comey decision to announce not charging HRC in email probe
“the April 2017 article mentioned a document obtained from Russia by hackers working for Dutch intelligence officials. The document, whose existence was classified, was said to have played a key role in Mr. Comey’s thinking about the Clinton case.”
“Russian hackers had obtained the document, but it is apparently not among those that Russia sent to WikiLeaks, intelligence officials concluded.”
Trump era investigation “focus was said to evolve over time, as investigators shifted from scrutinizing whether they could charge Comey with a crime for disclosing his conversations with Trump, to whether he had anything to do with the disclosure of the existence of the document”
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