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To: RitaOK; ransomnote

Certainly the fact of “No Leaks”, whatsoever, from Huber or Horowitz gave me pause


Not if you know how agressively this adminstration pursues leakers.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/leak-investigations-rise-800-under-jeff-sessions

The number of leak probes run out of the Justice Department has increased 800%, according to testimony Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivered today on Capitol Hill.

Sessions said the Justice Department currently has 27 open investigations into these matters. He added that in the previous three years, there have been a total of nine such investigations –– just three last year.

A nine-fold increase, in other words.

“In the whole history of the country, there have only been about a dozen prosecutions for leaks,” said Ben Wizner, an attorney with the ACLU who also represents Edward Snowden. “So the 27 number, if it’s real, is staggering.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/top-senate-staffer-arrested-leak-probe-after-ny-times-reporter-n881186

Top Senate staffer arrested in leak probe, after NY Times reporter’s records are seized
The former security director for the Senate Intelligence Committee had been in three-year relationship with a New York Times reporter.


472 posted on 12/23/2018 5:00:10 AM PST by BiggBob
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To: BiggBob

Many more investigations possible, because many more leaks.


475 posted on 12/23/2018 5:09:40 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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