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The real aim of Trump’s New York Times leak investigation is to punish reporters | James Risen
A decade ago, experts said I’d be the last reporter to face a subpoena in a leak investigation. How wrong they were In 2015, after I won a seven-year battle with the federal government and refused its demands that I reveal my confidential sources for a story I wrote about a botched CIA operation, many media experts predicted that I would be the last journalist ever subpoenaed by the government in a leak investigation. They argued that new surveillance technology made it possible for the governm…
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