"Trump DOJ Obtained Phone Records of NY Times Journalists"

Thursday, 03 June 2021 08:22 AM

The phone records of four reporters for The New York Times were secretly seized by the Justice Department under then-President Donald Trump, the newspaper is reporting.

The Times attributed the information to the Biden administration and said the records spanned nearly four months in 2017 and were part of a leak investigation.

The Justice Department said the phone records of reporters Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eric Lichtblau, and Michael S. Schmidt were seized.

Dean Baquet, the executive editor of the Times, condemned the Trump administration for the action regarding the reporters.

"Seizing the phone records of journalists profoundly undermines press freedom," he said in a statement. "It threatens to silence the sources we depend on to provide the public with essential information about what the government is doing."

CNN had reported in May that the Trump administration secretly sought and obtained 2017 phone and email records of the news network’s Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr as part of a leak investigation.

And The Washington Post reported on May 7 that the Trump Justice Department obtained the phone records from two current reporters and one former journalist from the paper for a period in 2017.

After the disclosures of the CNN and Post seizures, President Joe Biden said he would not allow the justice department to take such steps against reporters.

And Baquet noted the Biden vow, saying: "President Biden has said this sort of interference with a free press will not be tolerated in his administration. We expect the Department of Justice to explain why this action was taken and what steps are being taken to make certain it does not happen again in the future."

The records from the Times’ journalists were reportedly obtained in 2020.

Anthony Coley, a Justice Department spokesman, said that "members of the news media have now been notified in every instance" of leak investigations from the 2019-2020 period in which their records were sought.

The Justice Department did not detail which article was being investigated, according to the Times.

The newspaper speculated that the leak probe related to classified information reported in an April 22, 2017, article the four Times journalists wrote about how James Comey, then the FBI director, handled politically charged investigations during the 2016 presidential election.

The Hill noted that Sen. Ron Wyden D-Ore. and Rep. Jamie Raskin D-Md. Have urged Attorney General Merrick Garland to end the practice against reporters.

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/ny-times-trump-justice-department/2021/06/03/id/1023742/

Strange that right after JBS, the world's largest meat supplier, shuts down during a ransomware attack this happens?? They want to destroy our meat.

"Brazil Judge Rules JBS Pays Damages Over COVID-19 Outbreak - Prosecutors"

June 1, 2021, at 5:27 p.m.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A court in Brazil ordered JBS SA, the world's largest meat processing company, to pay 1 million reais ($194,000) in damages over its failure to take measures to protect workers from a COVID-19 outbreak, according to a statement from labor prosecutors on Tuesday.

JBS declined to comment on the decision handed down by Judge Marcelo Silva Porto, saying it does not discuss ongoing lawsuits.

Porto's ruling also called for modifying work schedules to reduce the number of workers per shift at JBS' plant in the Ana Rech district of Caxias do Sul, where it processes poultry. Workers at that plant should also be provided with protective masks, individual lockers and should stay at least two meters apart, the ruling said, according to a statement from the labor prosecutors.

In the United States, the company has also faced claims that it failed to protect employees from the virus.

For example, in September 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) proposed $15,615 in penalties be imposed on JBS Foods Inc, after it found the company's plant in Greeley, Colorado, did not protect employees from exposure to the novel coronavirus.

Brazil's Ana Rech unit became the site of the first indoor outbreak of the coronavirus in Caxias do Sul, which led to the temporary shutdown of the plant in June 2020, the prosecutors said.

Mandatory testing of all employees was also carried out at the facility when the outbreak occurred, the statement noted. Of the 1,538 tests performed, 410 gave positive results.

JBS may appeal the ruling, prosecutors said.

https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2021-06-01/brazil-judge-rules-jbs-pays-damages-over-covid-19-outbreak-prosecutors

Message from Joe M

12hrs ago

The fact that Washington Post are the ones who released Fauci's emails should cause everyone to try figure out what they're up to, what the laser pointer is distracting us from, or what [they] gain from cutting him loose.

https://gab.com/StormIsUponUs/posts/106344040823293966

>>13820168

>(You)

Distraction from the audits imo.

>>13820185

WaPo=C-I-A

>>13820193

Chyna & audits. WaPo is [C-I-A}

This might be worth watching. Live in 2hrs.

Thousands of Fauci’s emails have been made public, but is it really what it seems? As the media scrambles to defend him, cracks in the narrative are only growing deeper. But for a man with such a long and shady past, isn’t it interesting that these emails reveal nothing the public doesn’t already know? We already know he flip flopped on masks. We already know he dismissed the lab leak theory. So what's the purpose of releasing these emails now? And why are they making such a big fuss over them? Is there more to this story than meets the eye? Find out today @ 12PM ET!

>>13820291

Durham was the last post Q made. I pray it was for good reason and will be the boom we need so badly now.

>>13820412

Was Fauci the reason for EO 13959?

Amending Executive Order 13959 Addressing the Threat From Securities Investments That Finance Communist Chinese Military Companies

1/19/2021

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/01/19/2021-01228/amending-executive-order-13959addressing-the-threat-from-securities-investments-that-finance

>>13820524

I gave the link dumbass. You didn't check it did you? https://gab.com/StormIsUponUs/posts/106344040823293966