There was a huge scandal in 2013 — driven by daily outrage from the Right and Fox (and they were right) — that the Obama DOJ sent subpoenas to AP and Fox reporters to find their sources of classifed infomation. Holder stopped the policy. Now Trump is doing it to the NYT:
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> There was a huge scandal in 2013 — driven by daily outrage from the Right and Fox (and they were right) — that the Obama DOJ sent subpoenas to AP and Fox reporters to find their sources of classifed infomation. Holder stopped the policy.
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> Now Trump is doing it to the NYT:
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>>The Trump administration issued subpoenas to New York Times journalists who wrote about the new Air Force One, an escalation of pressure on the media.
>> https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/business/media/new-york-times-trump-subpoenas.html?smtyp=cur
> All this happened about 2 weeks before we started doing the first Snowden reports. These Obama DOJ subpoenas were considered a grave threat to press freedom: threatening to imprison journalists for not revealing their sources. And they were.
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> Same now:
>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/29/holder-media-pushback-leaks-fox-ap
The right is going to he fine with this.
While I understood why Obama did it, I was completely against him doing it.
Using the espionage act to pressure them to give up their sources. Fuck you man.