Barr DOJ Stated that Negative Reporting on Trump was “Proof” we Were Russian Agents
Daily Beast: The Department of Justice under Donald Trump obtained months worth of phone records of several Washington Post journalists who covered Russian election interference, the Post reports.
BREAKING: Trump Justice Dept. sought the phone records of three Washington Post reporters for calls they made during three months in 2017 while reporting on Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election, DOJ says. https://t.co/L2HmR5DtXb
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) May 8, 2021
Two reporters for the paper and a former reporter were told earlier this month that the DOJ had obtained the phone records at some point in 2020, for calls made and received between April 15, 2017 and July 31, 2017. “We are deeply troubled by this use of government power to seek access to the communications of journalists,” the newspaper’s acting executive editor, Cameron Barr, said in a statement.
Via my #FOIA: Here's former DOJ spox Sarah Flores providing a reporter a comment on deep background about whether Jeff Sessions met with Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak.
WaPo said today their 2017 story on this mtg may have lead DOJ to seize reporters' phone records pic.twitter.com/HHpghbetVg
— Jason Leopold (@JasonLeopold) May 7, 2021
“The Department of Justice should immediately make clear its reasons for this intrusion into the activities of reporters doing their jobs, an activity protected under the First Amendment.”
Trump officials were reportedly on the hunt for leakers sharing info about Russia's interference in the 2016 election. https://t.co/IGeL0Kmu3G
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) May 8, 2021
A DOJ spokesman defended the move as a necessary part of “a criminal investigation into unauthorized disclosure of classified information.” The phone records showed the parties involved in each call, how long the call lasted and when it happened, but they don’t show the content of the call.
Fascist is as fascist does. https://t.co/YflEAjFttR
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) May 7, 2021
The DOJ also reportedly sought to obtain the reporters’ email records but didn’t end up getting them. The Post notes that during the time period in question, the reporters had covered U.S. intelligence about Jeff Sessions’ interactions with Russian ambassador Sergei Kislayk regarding the Trump campaign. They also wrote about Russian election meddling in 2016. read more..
Trump's DOJ dug into Washington Post reporters' phone records, report says https://t.co/gKjOmslDje
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) May 7, 2021
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That Russia is still the primary bogeyman shows the intractable hold that Zionism has on US politics. The antipathy the Ashkenazim have for Russia goes back to 965 when Sviatoslav I destroyed the Khazar city of Sarkel and its capital of Atil in the Caspian Expeditions of the Rus’. The Khazars became the Ashkenazim, and the rest is history.
We will never be free to determine our own foreign policy until we jettison the false mythology that the Ashkenazim are the rightful heirs to all of Greater Israel and that goyim are duty-bound to be their slaves.
Right out of the Watergate playbook.
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