Biden administration defends Trump’s indefensible surveillance of reporters
Cenzolovka 12.05.2021 | Parker Higgins
The Washington Post revealed on Friday that last year, the Department of Justice under former President Trump obtained the phone records of three of its national security journalists, with a subpoena that would likely have been approved by former Attorney General William Barr directly.
Photo: Hillary Clinton (cc) These subpoenas represent an outrageous invasion of the First Amendment rights of journalists to communicate with sources, and the defense of their use by the Biden administration raises alarming questions about its commitment to press freedom. Former President Trump’s open antipathy to journalists and newsrooms was exceptional, but this act to invade their privacy is unfortunately not an outlier in the past several administrations. When
