Here We Go => AG Sessions Set to Drop MAJOR Leak Investigation Report
Joshua Caplan Jul 25th, 2017 10:15 pm 7 Comments
On the very same day President Trump hammered Sessions for being weak on leaks, the Attorney General is set to announce a major report on them.
The Hill reports:
Attorney General Jeff Sessions will reportedly make an announcement about several criminal leak investigations within days.
Officials told The Washington Post about the forthcoming news from the Justice Department. The investigations will be centered around news reports containing sensitive material about intelligence, the report said.
The news comes as newly-appointed White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci publicly decried leaks coming from within the West Wing in his first week on the job and vowed to fire staffers who continue talking to reporters.
The impending announcement also comes as Trump grows publicly unhappy with Sessions, last week criticized the attorney general for recusing himself from the Russia investigation.
Pressure by President Trump and Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci has has renewed efforts to stop White House leaks.
CNBC wrote:
Anthony Scaramucci, the Wall Street financier tapped for the role last week, said Tuesday that he was prepared to “fire everybody” to stop information leaks from the press office.
Speaking to reporters, Scaramucci said that he was “not doing an investigation. I’m just going to get the leaking to stop.” He stressed that he had “the authority from the president to do that.”
“You’re either going to stop leaking or you’re going to get fired,” Scaramucci said.
Scaramucci said Tuesday that he planned to dismiss Assistant Press Secretary Michael Short, according to a report from Politico. Short, however, told Politico he had “not been informed of any decision” on Tuesday morning.
Axios confirmed Short’s resignation on Tuesday.
Leaks are one of the most pressing issue the Trump administration has faced since the very beginning. The White House is plagued by nearly one National Security leak per day.
Washington Free Beacon reports:
The Trump administration is battling an unprecedented wave of national security leaks that are appearing in the press at least once a day, significantly more than either the former Obama or Bush administration experienced in the same time frame, according to a new Senate investigation that warns these leaks are endangering U.S. security operations and relations with allied nations.
“Since President Trump assumed office, our nation has faced an unprecedented wave of potentially damaging leaks of information,” according to a new report published by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
“Under President Trump, leaks are flowing at the rate of one a day,” according to the report, which notes that “under President Trump’s predecessors, leaks of national security information were relatively rare.”
These leaks, often of highly classified national security information, are meant to undermine President Donald Trump’s administration and handicap his national security apparatus, according to sources inside and outside the White House familiar with the situation.
Joshua Caplan Jul 25th, 2017 10:15 pm 7 Comments
On the very same day President Trump hammered Sessions for being weak on leaks, the Attorney General is set to announce a major report on them.
The Hill reports:
Attorney General Jeff Sessions will reportedly make an announcement about several criminal leak investigations within days.
Officials told The Washington Post about the forthcoming news from the Justice Department. The investigations will be centered around news reports containing sensitive material about intelligence, the report said.
The news comes as newly-appointed White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci publicly decried leaks coming from within the West Wing in his first week on the job and vowed to fire staffers who continue talking to reporters.
The impending announcement also comes as Trump grows publicly unhappy with Sessions, last week criticized the attorney general for recusing himself from the Russia investigation.
Pressure by President Trump and Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci has has renewed efforts to stop White House leaks.
CNBC wrote:
Anthony Scaramucci, the Wall Street financier tapped for the role last week, said Tuesday that he was prepared to “fire everybody” to stop information leaks from the press office.
Speaking to reporters, Scaramucci said that he was “not doing an investigation. I’m just going to get the leaking to stop.” He stressed that he had “the authority from the president to do that.”
“You’re either going to stop leaking or you’re going to get fired,” Scaramucci said.
Scaramucci said Tuesday that he planned to dismiss Assistant Press Secretary Michael Short, according to a report from Politico. Short, however, told Politico he had “not been informed of any decision” on Tuesday morning.
Axios confirmed Short’s resignation on Tuesday.
Leaks are one of the most pressing issue the Trump administration has faced since the very beginning. The White House is plagued by nearly one National Security leak per day.
The Trump administration is battling an unprecedented wave of national security leaks that are appearing in the press at least once a day, significantly more than either the former Obama or Bush administration experienced in the same time frame, according to a new Senate investigation that warns these leaks are endangering U.S. security operations and relations with allied nations.
“Since President Trump assumed office, our nation has faced an unprecedented wave of potentially damaging leaks of information,” according to a new report published by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
“Under President Trump, leaks are flowing at the rate of one a day,” according to the report, which notes that “under President Trump’s predecessors, leaks of national security information were relatively rare.”
These leaks, often of highly classified national security information, are meant to undermine President Donald Trump’s administration and handicap his national security apparatus, according to sources inside and outside the White House familiar with the situation.
