The U.S. 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.
Vehicles drive past the New York Times headquarters in New York March 1, 2010. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
The legal battle to gain access to the email logs of four of the journalists started in the last weeks of Trump's presidency and sought to reveal reporters' sources, the Times"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," the report said, citing Times lawyer David McCraw.
McCraw was quoted as saying the gag order, which he called unprecedented, had been in effect since March 3 but had now been lifted by a federal court., which operates the Times's email system and had resisted the effort to obtain the information, the report said.on Wednesday that the Trump administration secretly seized phone records of four reporters spanning nearly four months in 2017 as part of a leak investigation.
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