Posted on 08/04/2017 5:53:04 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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 that what's been done in the past to combat leaks hasn't been effective.
"I have not been happy with the past prosecutions and investigations of criminal leaks," Sessions said last week, noting that the U.S. has "already taken a number of steps."
"We already have multiples, numbers of prosecutions compared to last year at this time," he said, adding that the Justice Department would be "stepping up" prosecution of intelligence leak cases.
"We’re stepping up those cases. It cannot continue," Sessions said. "People need to go to jail."
Intelligence leaks have already had consequences for the United States.
In May, police in Manchester, England, announced they were no longer sharing intelligence related to the bombing of an Ariana Grande concert with the United States after a string of leaks to the American media about the attack.
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I thought it curious that Sessions pointed out that the deputy AG and new FBI director had familiarity with a particular intel agency as it was located in Maryland...
It seems too many do not care if there are ‘convictions’ so long as Sessions indicts. And Sessions plainly stated that AG does NOT discuss ongoing investigations... period...
I have no trouble whatsoever about AG Sessions being very methodical and very cautious. It's not an easy job, draining the swamp. Best to get it right the first time. If not, the coup will never be thwarted.
What baffles me is how easy it is to get those calling themselves on the ‘right’ side willingly ignore what a cess-pool, Obama’s/Clintons lawyers made of the Attorney General’s office... Department of ‘just-us’. It is a time consuming venture to clear out dirty lawyers... and actually go after ‘leakers’... as there were very few ‘leaks’ about Obama/Clintons criminal activity ... and the Congress became complicit in those crimes by continuing to tax US and send these criminal enterprises our tax dollars.
I am far more repulsed by the actions/inactions of Congress than the work of Sessions.
I don't know what to make of the HOR. Are they on our side when they pass things, or do they know that anything good for US citizens will never get passed by the US Senate?
DC is a swamp, for sure, worse than we ever could have imagined. But I'm no longer referring to the US Senate as part of the swamp. THE US SENATE IS A SEWER!! Draining a sewer doesn't do any good. More extreme measures are needed to fumigate sewer rats. I'm hoping AG Sessions can get some of them for leaking classified information. Those creeps wouldn't respond to anything less.
That's my take, anyway.
Both houses of Congress work for their big dollar donors... Congress repays their big dollar donors with legislation that taxes, mandates and regulates, we the people, to repay their political donors.
Congress funds every dollar spent by any in government... Congress is ‘deep state’, and is basically run by democrat staffers.
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