Posted on 08/04/2017 1:17:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Attorney General Jeff Sessions stood in solidarity with President Trump on Friday while discussing the "staggering" number of intelligence leaks released to the American media, adding that the Department of Justice "is open for business" to prosecute those who disclose classified information.
He cited statistics to back up that claim, saying that the Justice Department has tripped the number of active investigations regarding the subject.
"In the first six months, the Justice Department received as many criminal referrals involving the unauthorized disclosure of information as those received in the previous three years combined," Sessions said during the briefing.
Change will only occur, Sessions noted, if a stand is taken against the culture of leaking information.
"Don't do it," Sessions warned those who may be thinking about releasing information.
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What a waste of time to hold a presser to say, “You really shouldn’t do it!”
Don’t waste our time until you are announcing the arrests that were just made.
Throw the book at any one who is discovered to be a leaker.
And no mercy or plea bargaining.
Sessions did not help himself today.
Why the warnings?
March in and frog march people out in handcuffs. Today. That’s the warning they get.
Cultivate the popular notion of rampant leaks. Then make up anything you want about Trump claiming it’s based on ‘leaked information’. Literally anything. And it will be believed. Fake news. Write your own script.
They addressed it like Hans Blix addressed Kim Jong Il.
Reminded me of Rip Van Winkle as the Coo Coo Clock bird.
Pretty sure the leakers were on the stage today.
Without high profile convictions, total kabuki.
“”Don’t do it,” Sessions warned those who may be thinking about releasing information.”
Why not? The coward hasn’t arrested a single person for doing it. Not a single one.
AMEN to that!
I can think of one. The former NSA analyst (now a contractor) with the weird name. She was arrested and I guess is awaiting trial. A couple of WH people here & there have been fired. But I agree more and hopefully high profile arrests need to occur.
Sessions channel Barack Obama: “Cut it out!”
Jeff Sessions has been a total disaster.
Missouri rules...
Don't do it? It's already been done!
Why doesn't anybody advise the President that this AG is not a good fit for the administration.
Jeff is a true republican...Loooooooves to talk,never does anything to correct the situation,but looooooves to talk it to death....
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