Washington Post assumed that the Trump government secretly received phone data from three reporters writing articles on the Russian project of US election intervention.
The US Justice Department on 3/5 mailed Ellen Nakashima, Greg Miller, two Washington Post reporters, with Adam Entous, former reporters, to inform about this agency that collected a call list with electric numbers
"We are deeply concerned with the use of this executive power to access reporters' contact activities," Cameron Barr, Deputy Editor-in Washington Post, said on May 8.
The US Civil Federation (ACLU) accused the Ministry of Justice "spying journalists according to government orders".
Trump on a air force on January 20.
The US Justice Department spokesman said the agency complied with the processes set up with the phone data collection request.
These three reporters used to do the article about American intelligence, including Jeff Sessions, who was appointed by former Donald Trump President as the Minister of Justice, discussed Trump's campaign with Russian Ambassador
The relationship between Washington and Moskva during Trump's term was noticed after the allegations that Russia intervened in the 2016 US elections to facilitate Trump.
Special prosecutors Robert Mueller conducted an investigation in 22 months and announced results in May 2019, in which the conclusion did not detect any individual or officials in the election team of Trump
Former US National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe last year announced that documents related to former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John Brennan.
This document revealed Brennan told former President Obama about Hillary Clinton's "Plan" to push Trump, then the 2016 Presidential Candidate, to Russia as "how to distract the public" from scandal