justice department for unauthorized disclosure of information. that s what we had as of last night in the reporting that was bubbling up through the day. now we ve got a very unexpected turn in this from the new york times. i think we got the headline here. yeah, here it is. justice department seizes new york times reporter s e-mail and phone records in leak investigation. quoting from the times, federal law enforcement officials secretly seized years worth of a new york times reporter s phone and e-mail records this year in an investigation of classified information leaks. now, this reporter having records seized, this is the same story apparently on that news that we got last night and into today about something being leaked by a staffer on the senate intelligence committee. this reporter, who had her phone and e-mail records seized unbeknownst to her, a reporter
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basically they had gone too far and put in place a series of regulations that are supposed to prevent this from happening without the justice department going to the media organization and trying to negotiate some sort of accommodation in advance. and it is obvious that that didn t happen in this case. what s supposed to happen under these new regulations is the justice department, before it subpoenas a reporter s information, because this is important, this is different from subpoenaing a reporter s testimony. the reporter doesn t know if you ve gone and gotten their e-mails or gone and gotten their phone records. they have no ability to go to court to try to block it. the justice department under holder put in place new regulations that would allow for some kind of negotiation between the media outlet and the justice department and give the media outlet the opportunity to go to court to try to seek to try to block the justice department from seizing these records. it appeared that
senator wyden, thank you very much for being with us tonight. i appreciate your time, sir. rachel, you are quite good at making correct assumptions. and under the senate rules it s just not possible for me to get into it. let me just i want to push around the edges of that with great respect for your fidelity to your responsibilities as a member of the intelligence committee, sir. the times is reporting tonight that there is a connection between the justice department surveilling their reporter, looking at a reporter s e-mails and looking at her phone records while she was a reporter going back years. the times is reporting a connection between that treatment of their reporter which obviously raises a lot of first amendment concerns and this investigation into whether or not there were unauthorized leaks from a staffer on your committee. is the times right to draw those two things together? are these connected matters? rachel, i heard about the content of the times stor
arising out of the unauthorized disclosure of information. we did not know what that was about. senate republicans and democrats, though, agreeing unanimously that their intelligence committee should give documents, documents in the possession of its intelligence committee, to the justice department as part of a pending investigation. so all through late last night and through most of the day today, details were in short supply and speculation was in rich supply. now tonight we are starting to get another part of this story. just within the last few minutes the new york times has reported that a reporter, a new york times national security reporter, has had her phone and e-mail records seized unbeknownst to her. previously she knows now, but she didn t know when they were seized. seized as part of that investigation into a leak from the senate intelligence committee. senator ron wyden is the top democrat on the senate finance committee. he s also a member of the senate intellige