Fw: Breaking News: The Justice Department waged a secret battle to seize logs of Times reporters' emails, obtaining a gag order to bar executives from disclosing the effort.

 
From: "Terry Lodge tjlodge50@PROTECTED [Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition]" <peacelist@PROTECTED>
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Date: June 4th 2021
   And the US did not immediately capitulate and settle this after the inauguration because ??? Because a lot of times, there's a virulent authoritarian, Constitution-trampling strain of Murrican "democracy" that infects both wings of the Property Party.

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BREAKING NEWS

The Justice Department waged a secret battle to seize logs of Times reporters' emails, obtaining a gag order to bar executives from disclosing the effort.

Friday, June 4, 2021 11:03 PM EST

In the last weeks of the Trump administration and continuing under President Biden, the Justice Department fought to obtain the email logs of four New York Times reporters in a hunt for their sources, a top lawyer for the newspaper said.

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.

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