DOJ/TRUMP ADMIN: “As the Justice Department investigated who was behind leaks of classified information early in the Trump administration, it took a highly unusual step: Prosecutors subpoenaed Apple for data from the accounts of at least two Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, aides and family members. One was a minor…
Prosecutors, under the beleaguered attorney general, Jeff Sessions, were hunting for the sources behind news media reports about contacts between Trump associates and Russia… William P. Barr revived languishing leak investigations after he became attorney general a year later…
The zeal in the Trump administration’s efforts to hunt leakers led to the extraordinary step of subpoenaing communications metadata from members of Congress — a nearly unheard-of move outside of corruption investigations.”
-Katie Benner, Nicholas Fandos, Michael S. Schmidt and Adam Goldman, “Hunting Leaks, Trump Officials Focused on Democrats in Congress,” nytimes.com, June 11, 2021