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Attorney General Jeff Sessions will be joined by intelligence officials early Friday in a briefing on the leaks of classified information that have plagued the Trump administration. Sessions will be joined by Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and National Counterintelligence and Security Center Director William Evanina on Friday in Washington to discuss "leaks of classified material threatening national security," the Justice Department said Thursday afternoon.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats will hold speak on Friday morning about the Trump administration's ongoing efforts to combat intelligence leaks, according to a Justice Department statement. Sessions and Coats will deliver remarks at 11 a.m. on "leaks of classified material threatening national security," according to the statement. Following those remarks, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and National Counterintelligence and Security Center Director William Evanina will talk to reporters in an "off-camera pen and pad discussion." Last week, Sessions told Fox News's Tucker Carlson that consequences for intelligence leakers needed to be stronger, arguing...

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are suggesting that the Trump White House might be behind the leak of the transcripts of President Trump’s conversations with the leaders of Mexico and Australia. On today’s Morning Joe, Joe and Mika floated the notion that while the leaks might have been mildly embarrassing to the president, they were “really damaging to the press.” In support of their theory on who was behind the leaking, the pair pointed to the fact that when the Washington Post informed the White House that they had the transcripts, Trump administration officials did not ask the paper not...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions will hold a press conference announcing on-going leak investigations on Friday. The investigations into various government leaks have "been in the works for some time," an official familiar with the matter told CBS News' Paula Reid. It is expected that leaks related to the Manchester terror attack will be part of the Justice Department's investigation, as well as other leaks of sensitive information to the media. Sessions recently faced criticism from President Trump for not being "tougher on the leaks from the intelligence agencies." While it is atypical for the Department of Justice to announce investigations,...

Some lawmakers on Capitol Hill are outraged over the publication of transcripts of President Trump's calls with foreign leaders and are calling for the swift termination of whomever might be behind their release. "Can you imagine being President of the United States, having a conversation with a foreign leader. And that conversation being divulged to the media? It's just not fair to President Trump. The person who did this may think they have a noble outcome in mind, but that is just chaosm," Graham told CBS News on Thursday. Graham added that he hopes the administration finds out who the...

Former Obama White House National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes is now an emerging as a person of interest in the House Intelligence Committee’s unmasking investigation, according to a letter sent Tuesday by the committee to the National Security Agency (NSA). This adds Rhodes to the growing list of top Obama government officials who may have improperly unmasked Americans in communications intercepted overseas by the NSA, Circa has confirmed.

Even congressional interns can’t be trusted after one leaked a recording of a speech by Jared Kushner in which he admitted “there may be no solution” to the conflict in the Middle East. “So, what do we offer that’s unique? I don’t know,” President Trump’s son-in-law said in the speech on Monday, which was leaked despite a stern warning from an administration staffer not to spill the beans. “I’m sure everyone that’s tried this has been unique in some ways, but again we’re trying to follow very logically. We’re thinking about what the right end state is,” he continued in...

It was a bit obvious, wasn't it? Obama purchased an impenetrable, brick-fortified control center to disseminate leaks illegally obtained on Team Trump. Obama's spy center includes none other than Valerie Jarrett who resides there. Strange, isn't it? It's almost as strange as Deep State operative Comey and pal of Robert Mueller setting up shop to spy on Trump and getting away with it. Does the Deep State still have their agents in our various spy agencies such as the CIA, NSA, NRO, etc., feeding information acquired by a rogue surveillance satellite to Team Obama-Jarrett in their brick fortress? Does Team...

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper revised rules in 2013 in a way that made it easier to "unmask" the names of lawmakers or congressional staffers who are incidentally caught in foreign surveillance. The new procedures implemented by Clapper uprooted the previous set of rules that had been in use for just over two decades, according to a report from The Hill. The report relied in part on a newly released memo by the ODNI created in 2013 that said the lawmakers or staffers' names could be unmasked if an intelligence agency under the executive branch thought that "the...

Sara Carter, Award Winning National Security Correspondent for Circa, joined Brian Kilmeade today to discuss her breaking news regarding leaks from within the FBI. Sarah has uncovered that the General Counsel for the FBI, James Baker, is allegedly under criminal investigation by the Department of Justice for leaking classified information. "I would be stunned if it was not true." Carter says, "The FBI just doesn't let stories like this run if there is no validity." Sara is also perusing the allegations of the unmaking of names by the Obama administration. "It appears to those who have viewed these documents...

FBI General Counsel James A. Baker is purportedly under a Department of Justice criminal investigation for allegedly leaking classified national security information to the media, according to multiple government officials close to the probe who spoke with Circa on the condition of anonymity.

White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci took to Twitter late Wednesday evening to complain about the leaking of his financial disclosures to Politico for a story about his earnings at an investment firm he has an ownership stake in. In that tweet, he seemed to implicate White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus in the leak. In light of the leak of my financial disclosure info which is a felony. I will be contacting @FBI and the @TheJusticeDept #swamp @Reince45 — Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) July 27, 2017 Obviously, there was a lot of speculation right away that Scaramucci was directly...

According to reporter Ryan Lizza from The New Yorker, Scaramucci wants FBI, DOJ to investigate Reince Priebus for leaking his Financial disclosure! In case there's any ambiguity in his tweet I can confirm that Scaramucci wants the FBI to investigate Reince for leaking. — Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) July 27, 2017 Yes https://t.co/CtX0W8h7hp — Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) July 27, 2017 **UPDATE** According to National Journal’s Josh Kraushaar, Ryan Lizza reported Scaramucci has ALREADY reported Reince to the FBI over the leak. .@RyanLizza reports on CNN that Mooch already contacted the FBI about Reince // not just a threat (as he said...

White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said that some of the leaks coming from the Trump administration would have resulted in people being hanged 150 years ago. "The White House leaks are small potatoes relative with things going on about leaking things about Syria or North Korea or Iraq. Those are the types of leaks that are so treasonous that 150 years ago people would have been hung for those type of leaks," Scaramucci said. Later in the interview, Scaramucci said "Now all of the cynics around here and the tweets and all these other nonsense saying the leaks are...

Anthony Scaramucci‏Verified account @Scaramucci 13 minutes ago In light of the leak of my financial disclosure info which is a felony. I will be contacting @FBI and the @TheJusticeDept #swamp @Reince45

RUSH: “New White House communications director [Tom Hagen] on Wednesday blamed…” (interruption) Scaramucci. You know who Tom Hagen was? (interruption) The Godfather movies? The consiglieri to Don Corleone. He wasn’t a member of the family, but may as well have been. Robert Duvall in one of the greatest roles ever. I once had a chance to meet Robert Duvall; it didn’t happen. But, anyway. So if I occasionally slip up and call Scaramucci “Tom Hagen,” it’s on purpose. (interruption) No, I never met Pacino. I never met either of those guys. I’ve met Francis Ford Coppola. In fact, he hosted...

New White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci on Wednesday blamed holdovers from the Obama administration for a series of damaging leaks that have rocked the White House in recent months. Speaking on Fox News, Scaramucci said that "political holdovers" from the Obama White House "aren't helping," and hinted that more staff changes could be on the way. "Listen, we have to crack down on leaks on a number of different fronts," Scaramucci told "Fox and Friends."

Attorney General Jeff Sessions will soon announce several criminal leak investigations, Fox News has learned. A U.S. official familiar with the discussions said Tuesday that the planned announcement surrounding stepped-up efforts on leak investigations has “been in the works for some time and will most likely happen sometime in the next week.” The news comes in the wake of days of intense pressure on Sessions, with President Trump lashing out and expressing his “disappointment” with the attorney general, through tweets, interviews and news conferences.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is pressing on with his job despite President Trump's public criticism of him, and plans to announce in coming days a number of criminal leak investigations, according to a report Tuesday night. The Washington Post says Sessions is preparing to announce a series of leak probes related to recent news accounts publishing "sensitive intelligence information." Earlier Tuesday, Trump said he is "disappointed" that Sessions hasn't been tougher on leaks from the intelligence community. "I want the attorney general to be much tougher on the leaks from intelligence agencies, which are leaking like rarely have they ever...

We'll get the leakers EVERYWHERE says the Mooch: Trump aide says attorney general is planning action at other agencies - and reveals president ordered first casualty of the war Anthony Scaramucci told CNN that he's working with Attorney General Jeff Sessions to craft an interagency plan to 'uproot some of these leakers' Scaramucci's not officially on the job yet but his war has already resulted in one casualty - a mid-level press aide He revealed on CNN that his marching orders came directly from the president Also said that he warned White House staff to stop the leaking or else...