The Trump administration has issued subpoenas to several New York Times journalists after the newspaper reported on security concerns with the president’s new plane. The Times said its journalists were subpoenaed on Friday by the US justice department to testify before a federal grand jury in Manhattan five days later, marking the latest effort by the Trump White House to compel testimony from journalists under the threat of penalty. Agents delivered some of the subpoenas to the Times reporters at their homes, the paper added. A US justice department statement responding to a request for comment about the subpoenas mentioned investigating “breaches of national security”.
“To be clear, reporters are not the targets, those leaking classified information are,” the statement said, in part. “We … are not going to ignore the law and stop investigating the people who work in the administration and think it’s OK to leak classified information impacting national security.”
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Source: The Guardian
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