Three reporters for the Washington Post received an alarming notification this week, in the form of a May 3 letter from the Department of Justice that informed them their phone…
(Newser) – Three reporters for the Washington Post received an alarming notification this week, in the form of a May 3 letter from the Department of Justice that informed them their phone records had been secretly seized by the DOJ over reporting they’d done in the early days of the Trump administration. The paper reports that the letter to Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller, both current reporters with the Post, and former Post reporter Adam Entous informed them that records for their work, cell, and home numbers had been acquired “for the period from April 15, 2017 to July 31, 2017.
