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Biden Admin Slapped ‘Unprecedented’ Gag Order On Media Execs

Ben Johnson
Biden Admin Slapped ‘Unprecedented’ Gag Order On Media Execs
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The Biden administration not only supported a secret legal effort to obtain the phone and email records of four New York Times reporters, but its Justice Department imposed a gag order on the Times “to shield it from public view” — a move the newspaper called “unprecedented” in journalistic history.

The revelation comes just weeks after President Joe Biden called such records requests “absolutely, positively wrong,” adding, “I will not let that happen.”

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