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With the U.S. Department of Justice under fire for secretly obtaining Associated Press phone records, a newly unsealed court document has revealed that federal prosecutors seized far more than phone records in one pending leak case. A DOJ investigation into leaks about classified information about North Korea also looked at a reporter's security badge access records and his personal emails.

The Justice Department's legal ethics division will look at whether a former U.S. Attorney violated department rules when he disclosed information to a news reporter, an inspector general report released Monday states. Dennis Burke admitted to releasing to a Fox News producer a memorandum related to the Operation Fast and Furious gun-trafficking program, the report found.

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