But my point is there needs to be some confirmation from those agencies and not through the “leak process”.
Whenever you see a story about an investigation that is based on a "leak," you should assume that there's at least a 95% chance (probably closer to 99.9% in the Justice Department under Trump) that one of the following is the case:
1. The "leak" is from a person who is actually a target of the investigation and is leaking the information for the sole purpose of making it look like the DOJ is leaking it.
2. The "leak" was from a source inside the DOJ who is deliberately feeding misinformation to the media.