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DOJ Targets New York Times Journalists and Relatives in Search for Leak Sources

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  • Federal investigators are seeking phone records tied to New York Times reporters and their relatives as part of an inquiry into leaked information regarding security concerns with a Qatari-gifted Boeing 747-8 intended for use as Air Force One.
  • The investigation intensified after the FBI sent agents to the homes of at least four journalists who reported that the new aircraft had to be replaced during a trip to Turkey due to security issues.
  • The Department of Justice, led locally by U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton and coordinated by FBI Director Kash Patel, is pursuing subpoenas that the New York Times is currently resisting on constitutional grounds.

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“If journalists cannot be trusted to guarantee confidentiality, then journalists cannot function and there cannot be a free press.”— Judy Miller, former New York Times reporter
“I have a person in front of me who is defying the law. That’s the child saying: ‘I’m still going to take that chocolate chip cookie and eat it. I don’t care.”— Presiding Federal Judge (2005 case context)

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