Why the Justice Department spied on a Fox News reporter

Reporters widely denounce the latest White House leak investigation as "unprecedented"

James Rosen
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The Department of Justice went to extreme lengths in 2010 to ferret out who leaked classified information about North Korea to a Fox News reporter, pulling the reporter's emails and phone records, and tracking his movements in and out of the State Department, according to The Washington Post.

The report comes one week after The Associated Press revealed that the Justice Department had secretly obtained its reporters' phone records as part of a separate leak investigation.

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Jon Terbush

Jon Terbush is an associate editor at TheWeek.com covering politics, sports, and other things he finds interesting. He has previously written for Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, and Business Insider.