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The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has said it is ending a long-standing practice of secretly obtaining reporters’ records during investigations into the leaking of classified information.
It happened under both Republican and Democratic administrations.
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But the use of subpoenas and court orders to obtain journalists’ records came under growing scrutiny this year.
Democratic President Joe Biden has described the practise as “wrong”.
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