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An Anonymous Coward writes:

Its crazy that nobody has even submitted the biggest press freedom story of the last couple of years.

First, lets dispense with the whataboutism - Obama's DOJ did some shitty stuff, got called on it, cut it out and then formalized rules to prevent them from doing shitty stuff.

Then under trump, those safeguards were officially thrown out. [buzzfeed.com]

And now we learn that the DOJ grabbed all of a reporter's emails, [philly.com] including her school emails from her undergrad days. And it sure looks like the DOJ didn't even follow their own much watered down guidelines for gagging disclosure of email seizures. [emptywheel.net]

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