Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Post reporters' phone records
Source: Washington Post
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 Russias role in the 2016 election, according to government letters and officials.
In three separate letters dated May 3 and addressed to Post reporters Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller, and former Post reporter Adam Entous, the Justice Department wrote they were hereby notified that pursuant to legal process the United States Department of Justice received toll records associated with the following telephone numbers for the period from April 15, 2017 to July 31, 2017. The letters listed work, home or cellphone numbers covering that three-and-a-half-month period.
Cameron Barr, The Posts acting executive editor, said: We are deeply troubled by this use of government power to seek access to the communications of journalists. The Department of Justice should immediately make clear its reasons for this intrusion into the activities of reporters doing their jobs, an activity protected under the First Amendment.
News organizations and First Amendment advocates have long decried the government practice of seizing journalists records in an effort to identify the sources of leaks, saying it unjustly chills critical newsgathering. The last such high-profile seizure of reporters communications records came several years ago as part of an investigation into the source of stories by a reporter who worked at BuzzFeed, Politico and the New York Times. The stories at issue there also centered around 2017 reporting on the investigation into Russian election interference.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-justice-dept-seized-post-reporters-phone-records/2021/05/07/933cdfc6-af5b-11eb-b476-c3b287e52a01_story.html
Guess that's why one of his nicknames is "fat Nixon".
paleotn
(17,990 posts)More than a little
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)But of course we all know better, right? The Justice Department told us there was no collusion, and "that guy" told us himself, "there was no collusion".
If that doesn't satisfy us, what will?
turbinetree
(24,735 posts)to turn the country into his fucked up empire of the damned........
perfessor
(268 posts)turbinetree
(24,735 posts)SunSeeker
(51,771 posts)Scumbag Trump knows he illegally colluded with the Russians.
Botany
(70,625 posts)And so did McConnell, Ryan, McCarthy, Pence, Manafort, Bannon, Parscale, Gates,
Comey, Flynn, Stone, Cohen, Sessions, Zuckerberg, and so many more.
Every time Trump said "fake news" in order to cover and not talk about the Trump Campaign/Russian connections
he was lying. He knew that Manafort was feeding the Russians data analyitcs that they used to rat fuck the elections.
Spying on the Post's reporters, "These are the actions of a guilty man."
SunSeeker
(51,771 posts)He knew there was a lot of damning stuff that could leak.
Botany
(70,625 posts)It already shows 10 proven cases of obstruction by Trump. And what was he obstructing? Investigations into inks between Trump and Russia.