The leaders of three media companies disclosed to have had the email and phone records of their journalists subpoenaed by the Trump administration will meet with Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday, CNN reports.
Executives of CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post will meet with Garland to learn more about the 2019 efforts by the Justice Department, then headed by Bill Barr, to obtain the phone records and, in some cases, email records of its journalists dating back to 2017 and 2018.
The records sought by the Trump administration were from reporters covering Defense Department matters as well as other covering the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
It was revealed last week that the Trump administration also subpoenaed records from Apple for the communications records from two Democratic members of the House Intelligence Committee, then-committee minority leader Adam Schiff and member Eric Swalwell, as well as members of their families and their aides.
The meeting will coincidentally take place on the 50th anniversary of the New York Times publishing of the Pentagon Papers.