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President Donald Trump\u2019s administration subpoenaed a freelance reporter for The New York Times over a story involving a failed top secret mission in North Korea, the paper said.<\/p>\n
The previously undisclosed subpoena to reporter Matthew Cole was delivered to his home in New York by agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigations and issued by prosecutors in Virginia, The Times revealed Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n Prosecutors want Cole to reveal two years\u2019 worth of contacts and sources, The Times said.<\/p>\n Cole \u201chas dedicated his professional life to bringing official misconduct to light and informing the public about the workings of its government,\u201d\u00a0 his lawyer, David A. O\u2019Neil, said in a statement.<\/p>\n The reporter \u201cwill not be intimidated from continuing that important work. He will defend press freedom and the First Amendment from this administration\u2019s brazen attacks on journalists, and he will honor his commitment to his sources,\u201d the attorney added.<\/p>\n News of the subpoena comes as the Trump administration sent shockwaves through the media by subpoenaing four journalists<\/a> from The Times over their reporting on security issues with the new Air Force One.<\/a><\/p>\n The administration went so far as to seek phone records for those journalists and their relatives.<\/a><\/p>\n The Department of Justice was later forced to withdraw<\/a> the subpoenas issued to reporters\u00a0Julian E. Barnes,\u00a0Eric Lipton, and\u00a0Eric Schmitt.<\/p>\n At the time, Judge Arun Subramanian of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, grilled the government\u2019s lawyers and \u00a0questioned<\/a>\u00a0whether prosecutors had even followed the legal standards for subpoenaing journalists.<\/p>\n Trump had claimed the subpoenas were only intended to find \u201cleakers,\u201d\u00a0 claiming earlier this month<\/a> he didn\u2019t \u201cknow\u00a0what\u2019s appropriate and what\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re not after journalists. We\u2019re after leakers,\u201d Trump told reporters.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re after people that are cowards, people that are unpatriotic, people that are treasonous, in many cases, and the way you find them is through the journalists\u2026 If it\u2019s something having to do with national security, you tell the journalist, \u2018Who is it?\u2019 and we have a long way to go with that case.\u201d<\/p>\n