Thu Apr 14, 2022 – 1:34 pm EDTThu Apr 14, 2022 – 1:34 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) secretly sought payment information, browsing history, and other personal information on the conservative journalists of Project Veritas, according to documents provided to the organization by Apple and Google.
Veritas reports that the two computer/internet giants came forward with details on nine secret subpoenas the Biden DOJ issued them, seeking journalists’ payment information, MAC addresses, browsing history, and other personal information from not only Veritas journalists, but also those journalists’ security detail.
“By no reasonable measure can the wholesale seizure of newsgathering materials, attorney-client privileged communications, and irrelevant personal information be considered a proportional response to an alleged low-grade larceny, much less to a non-crime,” says Veritas attorney Paul Calli, who calls the administration’s actions violations of the First and Fourth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, the Privacy Protection Act, and Common Law Reporter’s Privilege.
Even the left-wing American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said it was “deeply troubled” by the Justice Department’s “secret electronic surveillance.”
The news follows revelations that the DOJ issued seven similar orders, warrants, and subpoenas to Microsoft, obtained from
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