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Emails from a reporter for the
New York Times to government employees obtained exclusively by Breitbart News demonstrate that the newspaper's employees are not just on the receiving end of leaks, but are actually soliciting government employees to become leakers. What's more, the emails demonstrate
the Times colluded with the president of government union to encourage and solicit these leaks - something that may become highly problematic for both institutions.
"Thanks again for taking the time to speak today," Coral Davenport, an "Energy and Environment Correspondent" for the
New York Times, writes in an email to John J. O'Grady of the EPA workers' union. O'Grady is the president of the AFGE Council 238 in Chicago-which represents EPA workers.
"As I mentioned, I'm working on a story looking specifically at concrete examples of unusual secretary at E.P.A.," Davenport states, continuing:
I've heard a lot of second-hand rumors, but in order to report these incidents, I'd need to have first-hand or eyewitness accounts. I'm looking for examples of things like, information being communicated only verbally when it would historically have been put in writing, people being told not to bring phones, laptops or even take notes in meetings where they would in the past typically have done so, eyewitness accounts of things like the administrator or top political appointees refusing to use official email, phones or computers, or any other specific, first-hand examples of practices that appear to demonstrate unprecedented secrecy or transparency.
The revelation of these emails comes as President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions crack down on leakers. It also comes as EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, the former attorney general of Oklahoma, has emerged as one of the most successful cabinet-level officials in the Trump administration, and Trump's political enemies throughout the left and media aim at targeting Pruitt.
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