Trump’s New York Times investigation isn’t just about finding leakers. It’s about punishing reporters | James Risen

A decade ago, experts said I’d be the last reporter to face a subpoena in a leak investigation. How wrong they were In 2015, after I won a seven-year battle with the federal government and refused its demands that I reveal my confidential sources for a story I wrote about a botched CIA operation, many media experts predicted that I would be the last journalist ever subpoenaed by the government in a leak investigation. They argued that new surveillance technology made it possible for the gover...

By James Risen