Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina on Sunday called for a special counsel to investigate the Justice Department’s subpoena of a Fox News reporter’s phone records saying the attorney general cannot impartially review a decision that he approved.

“This is clearly an overreach,” Graham said on “Fox News Sunday.”

The Fox News case differs from the Justice Department’s obtaining records from Associated Press reporters because investigators labeled James Rosen, a reporter for Fox, as a co-conspirator in the espionage case in an affidavit in order to obtain phone and email records.

“James Rosen is a lot of things, but a criminal co-conspirator he is not,” Graham said. “We’re beginning to criminalize journalism and I think that should worry us all.”

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