[ April 24, 2024 ]
President Donald Trump’s administration is hit by — minimum — one national security leak each day, according to a new report from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs.
That’s significantly more than the number of security dings suffered by his predecessors, Barack Obama or George W. Bush.
In fact, report investigators called it an “unprecedented wave of potentially damaging leaks of information.”
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The Washington Free Beacon has more:
These leaks, often of highly classified national security information, are meant to undermine President Donald Trump’s administration and handicap his national security apparatus, according to sources inside and outside the White House familiar with the situation.
The leaks are becoming increasingly dangerous, according to both the report and separate sources, and are now endangering sensitive U.S. operations abroad.
“Leaks with the capacity to damage national security flowed about seven times faster under President Trump than during President Obama’s and President George W. Bush’s first 126 days,” according to the Senate investigation.
“The Trump administration faced 125 leaked stories—one leak a day—containing information that is potentially damaging to national security under the standards laid out in a 2009 Executive Order signed by President Barack Obama,” according to the report, which examined open-source material published during the first months of the Trump administration.
The investigations discovered at least “125 stories with leaked information potentially damaging to national security,” according to the report, which states that “even a narrow search revealed leaks of comparable information during the Trump administration that were about seven times higher than the same period during the two previous administrations.”
The leaks are kneecapping the Trump administration and preventing it from protecting the United States.
“President Trump and his administration have faced apparent leaks on nearly a daily basis, potentially imperiling national security at a time of growing threats at home and abroad,” the report states. “The commander-in-chief needs to be able to effectively manage U.S. security, intelligence operations and foreign relations without worrying that his most private meetings, calls and deliberations will be outed for the entire world to see.”
The unauthorized disclosures ranged from information about Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 election to intimate conversations Trump had with foreign leaders inside the White House. Other articles includes classified information about U.S. operations against terror organizations abroad.
The Senate committee notes that all such disclosures are punishable by jail time under federal law.
The majority of these leaks, at least 78, concerned Russia and a possible probe into alleged collusion between a Trump official and Moscow, according to the investigation.
“Other leaks disclosed potentially sensitive intelligence on U.S. adversaries or possible military plans against them,” the report notes. “One leak, about the investigation of a terrorist attack, caused a diplomatic incident between the United States and a close ally.”
The report is referring to leaks that detailed Israeli intelligence about ISIS. The disclosure of this information is said to have angered the Israelis and caused a rift between Jerusalem and the Trump administration.
“Leaked stories appeared in 18 news outlets, sourced to virtually every possible permutation of anonymous current and former U.S. officials, some clearly from the intelligence community,” the report found. “One story cited more than two dozen anonymous sources.”
Just about all of the stories including unauthorized leaks targeted Trump directly or those in his administration.
For comparison: Only half or so of the stories leaked during the Obama administration dealt with Obama and his executive team. The other half actually dealth with President Bush and his war on terror.
And here’s a little interesting tidbit: Most of these stories have appeared in the Washington Post and the New York Times.
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12 Comments
6 years ago
The enemedia and their Goebbels-like buds in the Demoncat Party have the fix in for the president. It would be nice if the worthless pansies in the GOP would help him fight back. Turn the FCC lose on the media mafia. Keep Zucker runnin’.
6 years ago
Whenever a person is found leaking confidential information publicly make an example of them being held accountable and punished. A u-tube video of a pants down spanking for offenders would be a good start.
6 years ago
The solution to deep state leaking may not be simple.
However, if the leaker can’t be found and stopped, then the DOJ should go after the person[s] receiving the leaks, and smack them extra hard with every law that applies to national security. Long term jail is the only way to put an end to this BS.
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6 years ago
Just put them before a firing squad, like in WW2
6 years ago
Set them up, a few at a time. Demand lie detectors, if they refuse, buh bye
6 years ago
No doubt the “left”over crap from the sodomite Nerogro and Demoncraps.
Sorry to get so explicit and vulgar but that is the only way to describe the left.
6 years ago
Trump should have gotten rid of ALL Obama appointed people AND everyone at every level of government that they hired. I realize that it is not as easy to get rid of an employee as opposed to an appointee but I suspect that there are emergency and wartime rules that allow him to purge the government. And this current hijrah IS an act of war! It is not a conventional act of war by a nation state but an act of war nonetheless and the sooner that our government recognizes this and PUBLICLY STATES AS MUCH AND ACTS ACCORDINGLY the better off we will be strategically.
6 years ago
Leaker Reince (Reinhold) and butthead Paul Ryan are NOT your friends, Mr. President…
hahahaha Leaker and Butthead….
6 years ago
Trump wasn’t and never will be welcomed bye the swamp creatures !!!
6 years ago
Those who are leaking this info needs to be caught and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Drsin the swamp!
6 years ago
doesn’t anyone remember HOW LONG all that SCAFFOLDING surrounding the CAPITAL DOME for ‘renovations’ while the previous ‘occupants’ were living there??? I was suspicious from the beginning…..
6 years ago
At least there are decent people in there working hard to cripple 45. They should be recorded in history as nothing less than heroes. ?
