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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 records of four reporters. “Going forward, consistent with the President’s direction, this De...

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.