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CNN Reporter 'Horrified' That Justice Department Grabbed Her Records

"This is a sheer abuse of power," writes CNN's Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr.

“I am genuinely horrified by what happened,” CNN journalist Barbara Starr wrote in an opinion piece posted Monday on the network’s site.

“All of this is a sheer abuse of power in my view ― first against CNN and myself, since our work is and should always be protected by the First Amendment. But more importantly and more significantly, it is an abuse against the free press in this country, whether you are a television network correspondent or a reporter at a small-town newspaper uncovering wrongdoing,” Starr added.

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Trump ignores Pentagon advice and intervenes in military war crimes cases

President Donald Trump ignored Pentagon advice Friday and pardoned two service members, while also restoring the rank of a third after all faced war crimes allegations.

Officials all pointed to a central concept that informs the US military ethos: that US forces are highly trained to operate in a legal and disciplined manner and if they are found guilty of violations, they must face punishment.If the President "were to overuse his pardon power and in fact release soldiers who have, in every other way, have the evidence stacked against them, there certainly could be an impact on the military judicial process going forward," said John Kirby, a retired admiral who has served as both Pentagon and State Department spokesman.

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CNN says Trump administration secretly obtained phone and email records of Pentagon reporter

Multiple reporters were targeted during the former Trump administration’s crackdown on media leaks in 2017

The Justice Department informed CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr, in a May 13 letter, that prosecutors had obtained her phone and email records covering two months, between June 1, 2017 to July 31, 2017.

The letter listed phone numbers for Starr's Pentagon extension, the CNN Pentagon booth phone number and her home and cell phones, as well as Starr's work and personal email accounts.

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Trump administration pursued CNN reporter's records in months-long secret court battle

The Trump administration battled with CNN for half a year to obtain the email records of a reporter and insisted it all take place under an extraordinary order of secrecy, CNN's lead attorney revealed on Wednesday.

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Trump DOJ Secretly Obtained Calls, Emails From CNN Reporter: REPORT

The Justice Department told Barbara Starr, who covers the Pentagon for CNN, this month that prosecutors in the former administration obtained her phone and email records from June 1 to July 31, 2017. The records reportedly included both personal and professional email accounts, her home and cell phone numbers and her CNN and Pentagon numbers, the outlet reported.

It remained unclear as to when the effort to obtain the records began and why the DOJ sought them, CNN added.

This is not the first time Trump’s DOJ was revealed to have covertly obtained the personal records of American journalists. It did the same to three Washington Post reporters covering the FBI’s Russia investigation in 2017, and obtained phone and email information from a reporter for Buzzfeed, Politico and The New York Times who had covered Russia as well.

The Obama administration engaged in similar tactics as well, obtaining the contact information for multiple Associated Press reporters in 2013.

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Trump's DOJ Covertly Collected Award Winning CNN Reporter Barbara Starr's Email and Phone Records: Report

Matthew Chapman at NCRM: 

On Thursday, CNN reported that the Justice Department, under former President Donald Trump, secretly collected email and phone records from a CNN reporter, without notifying either the reporter or the news organization.

“The Justice Department informed CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr, in a May 13 letter, that prosecutors had obtained her phone and email records covering two months, between June 1, 2017 to July 31, 2017,” reported Jeremy Herb and Jessica Schneider. “The letter listed phone numbers for Starr’s Pentagon extension, the CNN Pentagon booth phone number and her home and cell phones, as well as Starr’s work and personal email accounts.”

“The seizure of Starr’s records is the third disclosure in as many weeks where the Trump administration used its Justice Department to secretly obtain communications of journalists or to expose the identity of critics of former President Donald Trump’s allies,” continued the report.