Trump justice department secretly obtained New York Times reporters’ phone records, paper says

Previous seizures of the records of journalists from the Washington Post and CNN have emerged in the past month

The justice department under Donald Trump secretly obtained the phone records of four New York Times reporters as part of a leak investigation, the newspaper has reported.

The case announced on Wednesday is the third instance in the past month in which a news media organisation has disclosed that federal authorities seized the records of its journalists in an effort to identify sources for national security stories published during Trump's administration.