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(Reuters) - 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 ...

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  The Justice Department during the waning days of the Trump administration and into the Biden administration sought to obtain email logs of four New York Times reporters as the department tried to identify their sources. A lawyer for the journalists told the paper that the Biden administration informed top executives at the Times about the inquiry but imposed a gag order on them to prevent the probe from becoming public. David McCraw, the attorney, said Friday that a federal court had lifted ...

Print WASHINGTON — In the last weeks of the Trump administration and continuing under President Joe Biden, the Justice Department fought a secret legal battle to obtain the email logs of four New York Times reporters in a hunt for their sources, a top lawyer for the newspaper said Friday night. While the Trump administration never informed the Times about the effort, the Biden administration continued waging the fight this year, telling a handful of top Times executives about it but imposin...

Message : Required fields June 5 (Reuters) - 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 reporters," including a gag order on executives, the newspaper reported on Friday. 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 reveal reporters sources, the Times said https://nyti.ms/3uRBH9V. "While the Trump a...

While the Trump administration never informed The Times about the effort, the Biden administration continued waging the fight this year, telling a handful of top Times executives about it but imposing a gag order to shield it from public view, said the lawyer, David McCraw, who called the move unprecedented.

The Justice Department on Saturday said it will no longer seize reporters' records in leak investigations, a notable policy shift on the heels of

U.S. Justice Dept got gag order on NY Times execs in fight over email logs - NYT Reuters 1 hr ago © Reuters/Lucas Jackson FILE PHOTO: Vehicles drive past the New York Times headquarters in New York (Reuters) - 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 reporters," including a gag order on executives, the newspaper reported on Friday. The legal battle to gain access to the email logs ...

It stemmed from the Trump administration's investigation of leaks deemed unflattering to the former president.

Push began with Trump, continued under Biden; Justice Department obtained gag order