CNN reported on Thursday that the Trump administration had secretly obtained the phone and email records of its Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr.
According to the outlet, the Department of Justice (DOJ) informed Starr on May 13 that prosecutors had obtained her phone and email records from June 1 to July 31, 2017.
The letter from the DOJ reportedly listed both Starr’s personal and work-related email addresses and phone numbers.
A DOJ official told CNN that Starr was never the subject of an investigation and confirmed that the records were sought through the courts last year.
It was not made clear when the search for Starr’s records was ordered or whether it occurred when former U.S. attorneys general William Barr or Jeff Sessions were in office.
“CNN strongly condemns the secret collection of any aspect of a journalist’s correspondence, which is clearly protected by the First Amendment,” CNN President Jeff Zucker said. “We are asking for an immediate meeting with the Justice Department for an explanation.”
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Trump administration secretly obtained the phone and email records of CNN reporter https://t.co/Tu0e3kG5rn pic.twitter.com/tCdNwZiz8r
— The Hill (@thehill) May 21, 2021
So if Miss Starr was not the subject of any investigation, just why did the DOJ need her records? And the DOJ had to obtain those records surreptitiously? Why?
Sounds fishy to me too.
Crickets from the people who were certain that Trump was all about busting up the Deep State and returning power to Real 'Muricans https://t.co/18sRo9BYEq
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 20, 2021
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