DOJ tells media execs that reporters were not targets of investigations
By Thomas Moore - 06/14/21 08:06 PM EDT
Officials from the Department of Justice told media executives from CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post that its journalists were not being targeted when the previous administration seized their phone and email records, according to a readout of the meeting Monday.
“During the discussion, the department made clear that reporters were never the subject or the target of the recent investigations,” the readout states.
According to the DOJ, media representatives at the meeting included Bruce Brown, executive director, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; A.G. Sulzberger, chairman and publisher of The New York Times and the Times’ Deputy General Counsel, David McCraw.
Also attending were Washington Post Publisher and CEO Fred Ryan, the paper’s Executive Editor Sally Buzbee and its General Counsel of Labor, Jay Kennedy. CNN sent Sam Feist, senior vice president and Washington Bureau Chief as well as Executive Vice President and General Counsel David Vigilante.
The meeting comes in the wake of revelations that the DOJ under former President Trump had seized phone records and emails from journalists working at the Post, the Times, and CNN.
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