Graham Urges Special Counsel on U.S. Probes of Reporters

A special counsel or independent investigative body should be named to look deeper into the U.S. Justice Department’s decisions to obtain the e-mails and telephone records of journalists, Senator Lindsey Graham said.

“We’ve begun to criminalize journalism, and that should worry all of us,” Graham, a South Carolina Republican, said yesterday on the “Fox News Sunday” program. “This is clearly an overreach.”