Current Events > Trump officials obtained Washington Post reporters' phone data

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57040255

Trump justice department officials in the US secretly obtained phone records of journalists working for the Washington Post newspaper.

Home, mobile and office telephones of the three reporters were accessed for three months in 2017, the Post said.

The paper said this was related to its reporting of the Russian role in the 2016 presidential election that brought Donald Trump into office.

The Post said it was "deeply troubled by this use of government power".

The justice department (DoJ) defended its actions, which were meant to identify government sources who had passed classified information to the reporters.

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I'd be more surprised if it was just these reporters tbh. Not like any Western government has shown it cares about privacy.

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"Get the vaccine."
Republicans: "DA VACCINE IS BEING USED TO TRACK US WITH MICROCHIPS!!!! NO!!"

"The Trump admin was spying on journalists."
Republicans: "So?"

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That cant be legal

This could be both legal and illegal at the same time for those of you confused by this story.

The data could be legally obtained as a late stage byproduct of Obamas DoJ being alerted to the Trump campaigns illegal activities.

And it could be illegally obtained by the Trump White House from a then neutered Trump DoJ.

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