"Biden Says He Won’t Allow His DOJ To Seize Reporters’ Records"

"President Joe Biden on Friday responded to reports that the former administration secretly obtained records belonging to a reporter covering the Pentagon during Donald Trump’s presidency.

“Absolutely, positively it’s wrong,” Biden told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins at the White House, where he and South Korean Presdient Moon Jae-in were holding a joint briefing.

“It’s simply, simply wrong,” he continued, adding that he would “not let that happen” under his authority.

Biden’s remarks came on the heels of a CNN report that revealed that Trump’s Justice Department had collected the phone and email records of Barbara Starr, the network’s Pentagon correspondent, for a two-month period between June 1, 2017, and July 31, 2017."

Lydia O’Connor reports for HuffPost May 21, 2021.

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