U.S. Waged Secret Legal Battle to Obtain Emails of 4 Times Reporters January 23, 2022, 12:27:45 am U.S. Waged Secret Legal Battle to Obtain Emails of 4 Times ReportersThe push began in the Trump administration and continued under President Biden, and the Justice Department obtained a gag order to keep it from public view. There was no precedent for the government to impose a gag order on New York Times personnel as part of a leak investigation, said David McCraw, a top lawyer for the newspaper.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/us/politics/times-reporter-emails-gag-order-trump-google.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20210605211726/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/us/politics/times-reporter-emails-gag-order-trump-google.htmlhttps://archive.is/Ag0XxSnowden: https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1401284875538341890