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May 11, 2021

Washington Post: Trump Justice Department Spied on Journalists Covering 2016 Election
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The Washington Post is reporting Trump's Justice Department secretly
obtained the phone records - and attempted to get email records - of
journalists reporting on the investigation into Russian interference in
the 2016 presidential election. The Justice Department sent three
separate letters earlier this month addressed to three Post journalists,
notifying them the department had received records associated with their
telephone numbers from between April 2017 and June 2017. This comes as
press freedom groups are denouncing the Biden administration for
defending Trump's move against the Washington Post journalists and the
U.S. government's ongoing push to extradite Wiki Leaks founder Julian
Assange from Britain.


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