'Even if you don't like the news media, take notice: Secret Justice Department proceedings against the free press affect everyone in this country,' Pentagon correspondent BarbaraStarrCNN writes for CNNOpinion.
Barbara Starr is CNN's Pentagon correspondent. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion articles on CNN.
Finally, it is now an appropriate time for me to speak out on the Trump administration's months long efforts to secretly gain access to tens of thousands of my 2017 work and personal emails and my work and personal phone records. Barbara StarrOn Monday, senior personnel from CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post are scheduled to meet with Attorney General Merrick Garland to seek a full explanation for why a total of eight reporters from the three news organizations were the subject of secret efforts to gain their records. Speaking for myself, I don't know what the government was looking for when it snuck into my life. I am not the subject of an investigation and there is no suggestion of wrongdoing.
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