CNN said the Justice Department informed Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr that it had obtained phone and email records covering a two-month period in 2017.
It’s unclear at the moment how many troops will receive the medals. The defense official told Military Times that the medal award packets are still going through the approval process.
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