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Attorneys representing The New York Times have revealed that the Trump administration\u2019s subpoenas of the newspaper\u2019s journalists are far more aggressive than what had been previously reported.<\/p>\n

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In a letter sent to US District Judge Arun Subramanian on Saturday and unsealed by the court on Monday, attorneys David O\u2019Neil, Douglas Zolkind, and Julie Edelstein said that the US Department of Justice was engaged in an \u201calarming pattern of conduct\u201d beyond its recently revealed efforts to compel Times reporters to testify before a grand jury for a probe related to unspecified national security leaks.<\/p>\n

The attorneys said the administration had gone so far as to subpoena phone companies for subscriber information and toll records for phone numbers used by one reporter\u2019s mother and by two reporters\u2019 spouses, among others.<\/p>\n

They also revealed that two administration subpoenas seek records going back as far as January 1 this year, \u201clong before the events that are purportedly the basis for the department\u2019s investigation,\u201d suggesting that \u201cthe department is using this investigation… to forage for information about the journalists\u2019 source relationships more broadly.\u201d<\/p>\n

The subpoenas of the Times journalists, issued earlier this month, came days after the paper published a story that detailed security concerns about the luxury jet the Qatari government gave to President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

The issued subpoenas did not specifically name the Times\u2019 reporting on the Qatari jet as the reason for the grand jury probe, although they were given to all four journalists\u2014Tyler Pager, Julian Barnes, Eric Schmitt, and Eric Lipton\u2014who reported the story.<\/p>\n

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It is highly uncommon for government investigators to subpoena journalists when they are probing national security leaks, as such actions are generally seen as having a chilling effect on reporters\u2019 ability to gather information.<\/p>\n

Katie Fallow, deputy litigation director at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, described news of the department seeking phone records of reporters\u2019 spouses and a parent as \u201can extraordinary escalation in the Trump administration\u2019s campaign to intimidate the press.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Justice Department didn\u2019t stop at journalists\u2014it went after their family members, too,\u201d Fallow noted. \u201cThat sends an unmistakably chilling message to anyone thinking about reporting on this administration. Every American who values a free and independent press should see this for what it is: an abuse of power designed to silence scrutiny.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seth Stern, chief of advocacy for the Freedom of the Press Foundation, was even more scathing in his denunciation of the administration\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven the Mafia says families are off limits,\u201d said Stern. \u201cIt\u2019s gross that the administration\u2014in its never-ending effort to harass and intimidate reporters who reveal its incompetence\u2014is going after the communications of journalists\u2019 relatives.\u201d<\/p>\n

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