Emails Show Dept. of Justice Suggested OANN Should Call the FBI About Software Used by NPR to Accept News Tips – By Colin Kalmbacher (Law and Crime) / July 22 2020
A series of recently-released emails show that officials with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) once suggested that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) might care to talk about NPR’s use of encryption to accept news tips to public radio reporters.
Perhaps even more surprisingly, the suggestion to ask law enforcement about public radio’s newsgathering practices was made to one of NPR’s rivals in the media industry: the far-right One America News Network (OANN).
Emails obtained by Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) journalist Jason Leopold show the order of events.
“Can you find out if DOJ is cool with NPR running a Tor-enabled tip email?” OANN reporter Neil McCabe asked DOJ’s Office of Public Affairs (OPA) Director Lauren Ehrsam Gorey in April 2018.
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