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Article snippet: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee may hold a hearing on the Justice Department’s surveillance of a New York Times reporter as part of a leak investigation, a senior member of the panel said Friday. Rep. MORE (R-Ohio) said he was “very nervous” to learn about the extent of the Department of Justice’s decision to collect and scrutinize years’ worth of the reporter’s email and phone records. “So I am very nervous about the government doing what you just described,” he added. “Just like I was nervous and upset about the government, particularly the IRS, when they targeted people for their political beliefs, just like I’m fired up about what the FBI did in the Trump-Russia investigation.” Jordan, who chairs an Oversight panel subcommittee, authored a press-shield bill with liberal Rep. The Free Flow of Information Act would protect journalists from being forced by the government to reveal confidential sources. The bipartisan bill was introduced last fall after Attorney General MORE vowed to pursue an aggressive prosecutorial approach to journalists, including throwing them in jail for publishing classified leaks. On Thursday night, The New York Times reported that the Justice Department had seized years’ worth of phone and email records from one of the newspaper’s reporters, Ali Watkins, going back to her college years, as part of its probe into who had leaked sensitive information to her. Federal law enforcement officials on Thursday arrested a for... Link to the full article to read more