Trump s DOJ secretly obtained phone records of Washington Post reporters
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Frank Pallotta, CNN Business
Published May 9, 2021 7:02:35 AM
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(CNN) President Donald Trump s Department of Justice secretly obtained phone records of multiple Washington Post reporters, the newspaper reported on Friday.
According to The Washington Post, the three reporters, who were looking into Russia s role in the 2016 election, each received a letter from DOJ dated May 3.
The letters informed them that 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, according to the newspaper.
Washington Post says Justice Department secretly obtained reporters phone records
The disclosure sets up a new clash between the federal government and news organizations and advocates for press freedom.
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WASHINGTON The Justice Department, during the Trump administration, 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 Justice Department under former President Donald Trump secretly obtained the call records for the phones of three Washington Post reporters last year in an effort to figure out who had talked to them. They also tried to obtain the email records for the three reporters: Ellen Nakashima, Greg Miller, and Adam Entous, who now works at The New Yorker. Federal investigators obtained the records for their work, home, and cellphone numbers from April 15 to July 31, 2017. The three reporters received letters informing them of the seizure that did not specify what the seizure was about. But the three reporters wrote a piece published July 21, 2017 about classified intelligence intercepts that indicated Russia’s ambassador to the United States had discussed the Trump campaign with Sen. Jeff Sessions.
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image captionTrump has consistently described attempts to investigate Russia s role in his election as a witch hunt Trump justice department officials in the US secretly obtained phone records of journalists working for the Washington Post newspaper.
Home, mobile and office telephones of the three reporters were accessed for three months in 2017, the Post said.
The paper said this was related to its reporting of the Russian role in the 2016 presidential election that brought Donald Trump into office.
The justice department (DoJ) defended its actions, which were meant to identify government sources who had passed classified information to the reporters.
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