Were Schiff and Swalwell Actually a Focus in Leak Investigation?

This is the third in a series of five columns on the recent revelations that the Justice Department, beginning in the Trump administration and continuing into the Biden administration, conducted investigations of leaks of sensitive information by government officials to members of the media. Those investigations reportedly involve subpoenas for communications records of several journalists, as well as other controversial information demands by investigators. Follow these links for the first and second columns in the series.

When it was recently revealed that the Justice Department had aggressively investigated government leaks of classified information that damaged the Trump administration, it was the focus on journalists that drew attention and outrage — the latter, naturally, by reporters themselves.