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Allison Griffin holds up a photo of her son Julian Rose, who was shot and killed by Glenpool Police officers in December 2020. Allison didn t learn why he was shot or the events leading up to his encounter with law enforcement until almost five months after the incident.
Tribal Nations are being asked to take on more responsibility when it comes to policing, prosecution and when families experience something tragic like one of their loved ones getting shot by police. Allison Herrera reports on the potential for information to fall through the cracks when multiple jurisdictions are involved.
This story is a partnership between KOSU and The Frontier.
The Trump administration spied on journalists. The Biden administration defended it.
On Friday, Devlin Barrett, a reporter at the
New Yorker). The records in question covered a period between April and July 2017, during which time Nakashima, Miller, and Entous collaborated on storiesabout Russian interference in the 2016 election. The Justice Department only notified the reporters of its actions last week; it said that it also obtained a court order to get their email records, but did not follow through.
The Justice Department stressed that it was investigating leaks to the reporters, not the reporters themselves, but the clarification, quite rightly, failed to cut it with journalists and press-freedom groups. Cameron Barr, the acting executive editor of the
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The Department of Justice quietly seized phone records and tried to obtain email records for three Washington Post reporters, ostensibly over their coverage of then-U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election, according to officials and government letters reviewed by the Post.
Washington Post says US secretly obtained reporters records
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This May 4, 2021, photo shows a sign outside the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice building in Washington. The Trump Justice Department secretly seized the phone records of three Washington Post reporters who covered the federal investigation into ties between Russia and Donald Trump s campaign, the newspaper said Friday, May 7.Patrick Semansky/AP
WASHINGTON (AP) The Trump Justice Department secretly seized the phone records of three Washington Post reporters who covered the federal investigation into ties between Russia and Donald Trump s 2016 presidential campaign, the newspaper said Friday.
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The Trump Justice Department secretly seized the phone records of three Washington Post reporters who covered the federal investigation into ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, the newspaper said Friday.
The disclosure sets up a new clash between the federal government and news organizations and advocates for press freedom, who regard the seizures of reporters’ records as incursions into constitutionally protected newsgathering activity. Similar actions have occurred only rarely over the past decade, including a seizure of phone records of Associated Press reporters and editors over a 2012 story that revealed a foiled bomb plot.
In a statement published by the newspaper, Cameron Barr, the Post’s 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 intrus