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DOJ Seeks Access to LinkedIn Messages in Leak Investigation

thedailybeast.com · 3hShare

Attorney General Todd Blanche’s Department of Justice is engaged in an extraordinary attempt to break into a reporter’s LinkedIn DMs without them knowing. The secret snooping campaign was exposed when a court battle, which Blanche’s attorneys had fought to keep private, exploded into the open because LinkedIn is fighting to keep the DMs from being handed over to the DOJ. But Blanche’s attorneys are still keeping secret the identity of their target, and why they are going after the journalist, other than to allege it is to catch a “leaker.” Read more at The Daily Beast.

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