CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Deadline reports:

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Saturday that the Justice Department would no longer subpoena the phone and email records of reporters during leak investigations, after recent revelations that prosecutors secretly sought such information from journalists at The Washington Post, The New York Times and CNN. It’s believed to have stemmed from Trump administration efforts to root out the source of leaks from 2017. More specifically, the leak investigation was said to target James Comey, the former FBI director who was fired by Trump.

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— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) June 5, 2021