ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ Statement on White House Comments ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ DOJ Investigation of NYT Op-Ed Author

September 10, 2018 7:15 pm

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WASHINGTON — White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders today that the Department of Justice should investigate the anonymous senior administration official that authored the . The comments followed on Friday by President Trump for a DOJ investigation.

Ben Wizner, director of the ºìÐÓÊÓÆµâ€™s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, issued the following statement in response:

“Writing this op-ed was not a crime. Using law enforcement resources to hunt down the writer is an abuse of power.â€