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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Politics
Bernadette B. Tixon

ICE's Secret Subpoenas Bypass Judges and Could Expose Journalists' Sources, Press Freedom Group Warns

Journalists were targeted with secret government demands for phone and YouTube account information, according to the Freedom of the Press Foundation (Credit: Yunus Erdogdu/Pexels)

Investigators from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a component of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), obtained six months of phone records belonging to Minnesota journalist Georgia Fort without securing a judge-approved search warrant.

T-Mobile produced the records without notifying Fort or giving her an opportunity to challenge the demand, according to the Freedom of the Press Foundation.

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