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Officials sought phone records of NYT journalists and their relatives in effort to unmask sources
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The use of journalists' phone records to identify confidential sources raises concerns about press freedom and the ability of reporters to protect their sources. In the US, the Department of Justice has guidelines in place to govern the obtaining of journalists' records, which are intended to balance national security and law enforcement interests with the need to protect a free press. The targeting of relatives' phone records, in particular, is a significant escalation of such tactics.
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Officials sought phone records of NYT journalists and their relatives in effort to unmask sources
A court document says President Donald Trump's administration sought New York Times journalists’ phone records and even those of some of their relatives in an attempt to unmask the confidential sources of reporters who wrote about Trump’s Qatari-gifted Air Force One jet
20 Jul, 18:02
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