White House Disavows Knowledge of Gag Order on Times Leaders in Leak Inquiry [View all]

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Source: New York Times

The Biden administration said on Saturday that no one at the White House had been aware that the Justice Department was seeking to seize the email data of four New York Times reporters and had obtained a gag order in March barring a handful of newspaper executives who knew about the fight from discussing it.

“As appropriate given the independence of the Justice Department in specific criminal cases, no one at the White House was aware of the gag order until Friday night,” Jen Psaki, a White House spokeswoman, said in a statement.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/05/us/politics/biden-gag-order-new-york-times-leak.html