8 entries in the ledger
A day after the Justice Department withdrew subpoenas that would have compelled three New York Times reporters to testify about their sources, President Trump publicly endorsed the practice. Asked in the Oval Office on...
On July 23, 2026, the Justice Department told a federal court it would withdraw subpoenas issued to three New York Times journalists that sought to compel them to identify confidential sources. According to The New York...
The New York Times reported on July 20 that the Trump administration issued third-party subpoenas seeking phone and text records not only of its journalists but of their relatives, including spouses and parents. The...
According to a motion unsealed on July 20, 2026, the Justice Department sought phone records of several New York Times journalists and some of their relatives as part of an effort to identify the confidential sources...
The White House directed FBI Director Kash Patel to oversee a leak investigation into New York Times reporting about security gaps in the Qatari-donated Air Force One, according to people with knowledge of the matter...
On the evening of Friday, July 10, 2026, federal agents delivered grand jury subpoenas to New York Times journalists at their homes, the newspaper said. The four reporters bylined on a July 8 article about the...
At a press conference on April 6, 2026, President Trump said journalists at an unnamed news outlet should be jailed if they did not identify who leaked information about the status of a second U.S. airman missing after...
At a Pentagon briefing on June 26, 2025, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spent much of his appearance attacking news coverage of a leaked Defense Intelligence Agency initial assessment, which had indicated that the June...