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The effort started under the Trump administration and continued under President Biden

The US Justice Department under presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden waged "a secret legal battle to obtain the email logs of four New York Times reporters," including a gag order on executives, the newspaper reported on Friday.

The U.S. Department of Justice will no longer secretly obtain the records of journalists during leak investigations, the White House said in a

Amid controversy, Justice Dept. says it won’t seek to compel journalists to give up source information Matt Zapotosky The Justice Department on Saturday announced that it will no longer use subpoenas or other legal methods to obtain information from journalists about their sources — a major policy shift that came just a day after the New York Times revealed that the department had prohibited the newspaper’s lawyers and executives from disclosing an effort to seize email ...

The announcement came a day after the New York Times revealed the department had prohibited the newspaper’s lawyers and executives from disclosing an effort to seize email records of four reporters.

Google because google provides "the new york times" back-end e-mail system. but google refused to turn over those records, unlike the phone company in question, and eventually as the administration changed pushed the justice department to at least tell "the new york times" this fight was happening, which it did in march. but in a very rare, apparently unprecedented step, it told a top newsroom lawyer for "the times", david mccraw, but also imposed a gag order on him, so that until this week he w...

And received e-mails from, from google because google provides "the new york times" back-end e-mail system. but google refused to turn over those records, unlike the phone company in question, and eventually as the administration changed pushed the justice department to at least tell "the new york times" this fight was happening, which it did in march. but in a very rare, apparently unprecedented step, it told a top newsroom lawyer for "the times", david mccraw, but also imposed a gag order on h...

US Justice Department got gag order on NY Times execs in fight over email logs – NYT Jun 5, 2021 2:27 PM PHT Reuters The US Justice Department under presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden waged "a secret legal battle to obtain the email logs of four New York Times reporters," including a gag order on executives, the newspaper reported on Friday, June 4. The legal battle to gain access to the email logs of four of the journalists started in the last weeks of Trumps presidency and sought to reve...

The push began in the Trump administration and continued under President Biden, and the Justice Department obtained a gag order to keep it from public view.

The U.S. Justice Department under presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden waged “a secret legal battle to obtain the email logs of four New York Times…