In prosecuting leakers, the Trump administration could cite the aggressive treatment of leakers under Obama.
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"There are leakers in the comms shop, there are leakers everywhere," Mr. Scaramucci said, calling the practice atrocious, outrageous and unpatriotic.
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Such actions, Jordan said, could make it easier for future leakers to be punished and could increase the inspector general's ability to criminally prosecute leakers.
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" Scaramucci added that he and President Donald Trump "have a very, very good idea of who the leakers are, who the senior leakers are in the White House.
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The government can prosecute leakers to discourage leaks in the first instance — though as a practical matter, the government tends not to pursue leakers, for a variety of reasons.
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BENSON: Well, a lot of leakers engaged in inappropriate or unethical or illegal activity, that is not unusual because leakers generally aren&apost allow to leak the things that they do.
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And what the president and I would like to tell everybody: We have a very, very good idea who the leakers are, who the senior leakers are in the White House.
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" On Thursday, Trump told reporters: "We'll find the leakers.
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" Scaramucci -- who wasn't originally booked to appear on "New Day" but called in to explain his version of events surrounding the tweet -- also blasted leakers in the administration, saying, "the President and I would like to tell everybody we have a very, very good idea of who the leakers are, who the senior leakers are in the White House.
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When the journalists who actually know who the leakers are, like Ryan Lizza, they know the leakers, they know, I respect them for not telling me because I understand and respect journalistic integrity.
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They can't even find the leakers within the FBI itself.
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The book, Liars, Leakers, and Liberals is out in bookstores.
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EU commission accuse unnamed leakers of seeking to undermine negotiations.
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Sometimes it's the fault of flubs and flaws and leakers.
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And President Trump called White House leakers traitors and cowards.
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They can't even find the leakers within the FBI itself….
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Trump says we will find out who the leakers are.
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Other convicted leakers have recently received considerably longer prison sentences.
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Cillizza: President Obama's White House was notoriously hard on leakers.
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Unlike President Trump, the leakers remain anonymous and thus unaccountable.
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And he's clearly hungry to find and punish government leakers.
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They can't even ... find the leakers within the FBI itself.
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Will it hurt the site's ability to attract more leakers?
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It looks like he will wield it against the leakers.
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Either Jaffe and Miller are liars, or there are leakers.
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"You know who the real leakers are," she told reporters.
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Facebook has teams that investigate scandals and go after leakers.
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Blumenthal had expressed concerns about cracking down on leakers. Aug.
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They can't even...... find the leakers within the FBI itself.
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The Obama administration has given orders to pursue administrative punishments against leakers rather than criminal indictments in some cases, indicating that the government's efforts to quiet leakers may have been more complex than previously understood.
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It's those "leakers" that Trump has repeatedly lambasted, including by calling into question the veracity of anonymously-sourced news reports and calling leakers criminals -- even when the leaks are not damaging to US national security.
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But other leakers have argued against the mass dumps Assange favors.
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To me, Michael, that's the story, these leakers, they are disgusting.
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Does he now accept that some of these leakers are real?
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They can&apost even find the leakers within the FBI itself.
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Jonathan Swan at Axios -- these guys know who the leakers are.
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And it has used an obscure federal act to prosecute leakers.
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Leakers have been under fire by Trump and the White House.
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Ought leakers be punished, and how can whistle-blowers be protected?
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The spotlight has finally been put on the low-life leakers!
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Comey has now admitted that he is one of these leakers.
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It is hardly unusual for American presidents to punish leakers harshly.
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And the effort to prosecute leakers must continue to be bipartisan.
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Sessions's promise to crack down on leakers has been a bust.
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The public interest case for prosecuting leakers is easy to make.
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The public interest case for prosecuting leakers is easy to make.
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He wants the leakers prosecuted — a stance he shares with his predecessor, Barack Obama — but it isn't difficult to imagine him making a jump toward broader surveillance powers to catch, or at least quell, government leakers.
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One school of thought says Apple doesn't want to stop these leakers.
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The leakers formed Trump's unofficial Enemies List — all on his own staff.
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"Leakers do not simply lose their jobs at Apple," the memo states.
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PIRRO: They are liars, they are leakers, and they&aposre liberals, Sean.
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An early draft was seen as a loyalty oath aimed at leakers.
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It's not yet clear how big Sessions's stand against leakers will be.
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And you know the real story here is about the leakers. OK?
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" Another wrote: "Imagine that some percentage of leakers are spies for governments.
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And I have this warning for would-be leakers: Don't do it.
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My outrage isn't just limited to the "leakers" in this week's stories.
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Where are e-mails and Democratic National Committee server and Intel leakers?
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Mr. Comey has now admitted that he is one of these leakers.
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They can't even...... [0731 EST] -find the leakers within the FBI itself.
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And the internal rule at both companies is that leakers get fired.
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There should be a concerted effort to identify and go after leakers.
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And leave is what the remaining leakers in this administration should do.
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He proceeded in becoming one of the most consequential leakers against Trump.
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The Trump White House has also vowed new efforts to punish leakers.
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And all game companies pursue their leakers with varying degrees of tenacity.
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They can't even...... [0731 EST] -find the leakers within the FBI itself.
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It will, and the choice here is: does the public learn that information on your terms or on the terms of any FBI leakers, White House leakers, congressional investigators, James Comey, and others caught up in the mess.
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Megan Thee Stallion came in swinging on Power 106's L.A. Leakers show.
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Republicans, including Trump's spokesman, criticized the commutation as a dangerous precedent for leakers.
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What these "leakers" are doing to our country will not easily be undone.
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Some of this activity is illegal, not that media favored by leakers cares.
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In his anger about leakers, President Trump is not alone among political figures.
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"I have this warning for would-be leakers: Don't do it," he said.
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In an "unprecedented" crackdown on leakers, he surveilled journalists and seized phone records.
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The documents also include the president's musings about pursuing leakers and imprisoning journalists.
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The message from the White House is simple: We will find the leakers.
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Sadler went on to name other people she also suspected of being leakers.
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Yesterday morning: Politico reported that Spicer was trying to crack down on leakers.
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Leakers, tipsters and unnamed sources are continually providing provocative information to the media.
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Obama said her time in prison served its purpose of deterring other leakers.
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I'll tell you: the moles who provide leakers with the images and info.
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In the last few years, the US government has shown it's willing to go after leakers—and sometimes even journalists—with legal cases designed to stop leaks and chill future leakers, making digital security extremely important to the reporting process.
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The Watergate scandal came about because President Nixon was furious at leaks, and in an effort to "fight back" against leakers, his White House aides created the "plumbers" to retaliate against leakers and political opponents (because plumbers, you see, fix leaks).
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But times have changed, and the leakers deserve pardons before Trump is sworn in.
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Mike Huckabee said Tuesday that leakers in the intelligence community are guilty of treason.
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According to the Times of London, they're doubling down on finding and firing leakers.
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Someone had leaked news of the President's lagging performance and leakers won't be tolerated.
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Results can often be published only in classified journals; leakers face years in jail.
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Anthony Scaramucci was going to crack down on leakers but didn&apost last long.
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Last year, Apple claimed to have busted 29 leakers, 12 of whom were arrested.
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JOHNSON: Precisely and we need to understand what are those leakers trying to accomplish?
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But the leakers should shut up," Podesta said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press.
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Subverting that will is hardly the high moral ground these leakers think it is.
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And the leakers likely have nefarious motives -- and might even be from foreign countries!
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Trump urged the Justice Department to launch an investigation to weed out the leakers.
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Instead, they've spent most of the hearing's first two hours discussing leaks and leakers.
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Sadler's comment spurred an intensive effort inside the West Wing to seek out leakers.
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"We identified quickly who many of the leakers were, and they're gone," he said.
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There was plenty of love for Sia's masterful effort at silencing blackmailers and leakers.
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Trump isn't the first president to condemn unauthorized disclosures and vow to punish leakers.
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The big picture: The aggressive pursuit of leakers didn't start with the Trump presidency.
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It would be up to the United States missile defenses to knock out leakers.
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And that was before Mr. Trump came on board and started hunting for leakers.
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A lot of full device leaks typically come from a handful of ace leakers.
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Nintendo filed a lawsuit against the alleged leakers who had undermined its PR strategy.
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But the leakers disclosed to the public — and our enemies — sensitive and classified information.
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"They are a bunch of sneaky, unethical leakers," he told Fox News' Laura Ingraham.
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Even critics of President Trump seem to agree: The leakers have gone too far.
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Poulson told the Times that stopping leakers is now the "number one priority" for Google management, with staff forming an internal web page to report unauthorized contact with media and one senior engineer shouting "Fuck you leakers" at an all-hands meeting.
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" Scaramucci said that after interviewing most assistants to the president, members of the communications team, and White House staffers, he and the president had "a very, very good idea who the leakers are, who the senior leakers are in the White House.
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And that suggests a third and much more likely motivation of the intentional leakers: politics.
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Google sent a similar email in 2016, describing how the company hunts internally for leakers.
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President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have vowed to root out government leakers.
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The Bob Woodward book, Trump believes, exposes that leakers are everywhere — and gunning for him.
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Tasked with ridding the Trump West Wing of leakers, he was fired in 11 days.
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But he drew criticism from Republicans who said the move could embolden other potential leakers.
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It concludes by sharing the news that 12 of the leakers in 2017 were arrested.
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Why did he wait until he was fired to have his leakers put this out?
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Rosen: It's well established that Obama was more aggressive against leakers than any previous president.
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Mainstream news organizations are also experimenting with new ways for leakers to submit classified information.
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Trump has labeled both Clapper and Brennan, former Obama administration officials, as liars and leakers.
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If you win in a pool, there are already potential leakers from the get-go.
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Trump, meanwhile, tweeted that leakers are "traitors" trying to make the White House look bad.
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Abusive clergy are not likely to assassinate leakers or to try to bribe the media.
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Trump has called for specific prosecutions, first of Hillary Clinton and more recently of leakers.
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Trump has vowed to crack down on leakers in the executive branch and intelligence community.
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It was evil, it was corrupt, it was dirty cops, it was leakers and liars.
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It was evil, it was corrupt, it was dirty cops, it was leakers and liars.
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Leakers have since shown off photos of the phones, along with the entire spec sheet.
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Like Mr. Agee, leakers "choose to see themselves in a romantic light," Mr. Pompeo said.
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Adam Schiff as "one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington" in a tweet.
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The Obama administration has mounted a more aggressive fight against leakers than any recent president.
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Yet, after the president expressly asked him to find leakers, Comey became a leaker himself.
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Trump praised Sessions' decision to go after leakers and the journalists who publish their comments.
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And, unlike the many leakers in the White House, I have put my name on it.
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Leakers of classified material and national security journalists alike know that publishing government secrets carries risks.
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In it, Apple said it had caught 29 leakers last year, 12 of whom were arrested.
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MACCALLUM: So, still ahead, the president making good on his promise to crack down on leakers.
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Once again there is no truth to the disinformation put forth by anonymous sources and leakers.
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The damage is far from done, despite having a few of the alleged leakers in custody.
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"Leakers, please resign instead of sabotaging the company," one wrote in a comment under Bosworth's post.
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The FBI hasn't identified leakers as the source of news articles on the Trump-Russia stories.
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Also, if you haven&apost ordered my book, "Liberals, Liars and Leakers" -- don&apost do it.
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As the President would say in his own words, the White House leakers are small potatoes.
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It's unclear if Pruitt and his staff are guarding against outside threats, internal leakers, or both.
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Public opinion on this issue matters because there are flimsy legal protections for journalists and leakers.
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Some leakers, maybe today more than ever, fear that the administration is heading off the rails.
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The Judge was on TMZ Live to talk about her bestselling book, 'Liars, Leakers and Liberals.
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That story was sourced entirely to current and former US intelligence officials — that is, to leakers.
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"What happened during the Obama administration was an investigation of leaks and leakers," Mr. Baron said.
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Trump started the day with a tweet blasting the FBI for being unable to stop leakers.
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Pozen easily dispenses with the idea that Administrations don't prosecute leakers because they can't find them.
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Scaramucci said on Thursday that he respects journalists for not telling him who the leakers are.
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These damning leaks will continue unabated until the first few leakers are caught, cuffed and prosecuted.
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"Liars, Leakers and Liberals" has spent 13 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list.
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As the president would say in his own words, the White House leakers are small potatoes.
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Assange launched WikiLeaks in 2006, creating a web-based "dead letter drop" for would-be leakers.
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I've interviewed most of the people in the communications team in the White House and what the President and I would like to tell everybody, we have a very, very good idea of who the leakers are, who the senior leakers are in the White House.
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With that being said, leakers are traitors and cowards, and we will find out who they are!
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Perhaps a good example of the affect of leakers directly on my work would be the xxxx.
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Specifically, we asked if Bezos is using any of Amazon's resources in his hunt for the leakers.
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This town is full of leakers, and everyone knows who they are, and no one trusts them.
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With that being said, leakers are traitors and cowards, and we will find out who they are.
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It all gets more complicated when the leakers know the tricks and how to cover their tracks.
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"With that being said, leakers are traitors and cowards, and we will find out who they are!"
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" Yes, Scaramucci told a reporter on the record that he wanted to "fucking kill all the leakers.
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He's also someone who has spent part of his post-FBI career literally trying to find leakers.
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Trump then went on to attack the "leakers" who spoke to the Post and other news organizations.
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The very anonymity of leakers makes it easy to portray them as shadowy conspirators plotting against him.
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Tasked with finding leakers, Comey became a leaker himself in order to strike back at the president.
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In a tweet, he called the unknown leakers "traitors and cowards" and vowed to sniff them out.
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Trump, in turn, has referred to Brennan as one of the "biggest liars and leakers" in Washington.
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President Trump doesn't need an NDA, in other words, to threaten consequences for leakers on his staff.
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If you win in a pool, there's already potential leakers of your business from the get-go.
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Here are the supposed specs, according to three of the most reliable gadget leakers on the internet.
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"The attorney general has been very clear that we're after the leakers, not the journalists," he said.
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Defenders and critics of leakers often spar over whether any particular disclosure meets that higher moral standard.
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"It was leakers and liars and this should never ever happen to another president, ever," he said.
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This town is full of leakers and everyone knows who they are, and no one trusts them.
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Manning's treatment by the US government, meanwhile, may have a chilling effect on other would-be leakers.
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Google decided to jump ahead of leakers today and post a very early photo of the Pixel 4.
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My new book, "Liars, Leakers and Liberals: The case against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy," comes out on Tuesday.
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" Judge Jeanine Pirro on the state of the Mueller investigation and her new book, "Liars, Leakers, and Liberals.
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But taken together, they echo Sessions' and, more broadly, the Trump administration's efforts to tamp down government leakers.
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During his presidency, Obama gained a reputation as the architect of an unprecedented crackdown on national security leakers.
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One employee wondered whether the critics of leakers had ignored incentives for sharing created by the product itself.
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In doing so, he set a dangerous precedent for future leakers and put his political legacy above justice.
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And we must correct this reckless commutation by ensuring future leakers are held accountable and serve their time.
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TRUMP ATTACKS WHITE HOUSE LEAKERS: Following ongoing drama surrounding leaked remarks made by aide Kelly Sadler about Sen.
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Comey is not a fan of leakers either and the two men find some common ground on it.
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Additionally, more leakers have faced charges under the 1917 Espionage Act under this president than all others combined.
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The president and his allies have frequently decried the disclosures and have vowed to crack down on leakers.
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But he asked who the leakers were, and Sadler said she thought one of the worst was Schlapp.
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While Apple hates when people spill its secrets, it also hates having to go to court against leakers.
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"We're going to find the leakers and they're going to pay a big price," Trump told reporters Thursday.
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Instead, he inspired one of the great leakers of all time: the F.B.I. associate director W. Mark Felt.
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Google has been steadily revealing information about its new Pixel 4 lineup almost as fast as the leakers.
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The former communications director had pledged to weed out White House leakers as head of the communications shop.
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Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) accused the Trump administration of "weaponizing" the Justice Department in its pursuit of leakers.
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Republicans are more concerned with covering up the leaks than the consequences of what the leakers have revealed.
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He did not breach secrecy for the sake of breaching secrecy, as latter-day leakers have arguably done.
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President Obama should suck it up and pardon both leakers before the incoming administration makes two ugly situations uglier.
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The Espionage Act, he use it almost more than any other President combined to go after reporters and leakers.
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Instead, he's cast Flynn -- whom he asked to resign -- as unfairly brought down by illegal leakers of classified intelligence.
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The real story is, they have to work, intelligence has to work on finding out who are the leakers.
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President Trump calls White House leakers traders and cowards for damaging the administration by ditching anonymously to the press.
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Let me come back to this question about the president&aposs tweet calling White House leakers traitors and cowards.
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And remember, you can get a copy of my new book, "Liars, Leakers and Liberals," wherever books are sold.
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In this case, virtuous leakers are also combating the disinformation campaign that seems to be coming from the Russians.
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The ruling party's response to the revelation has been not to rein in abuses, but to pursue the leakers.
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"With that being said, leakers are traitors and cowards, and we will find out who they are!" he wrote.
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The effort to find leakers has led to an acrimonious atmosphere at the White House, aides have told CNN.
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So far, leakers linked to the Russians have released tens of thousands of Democratic documents and zero Republican documents.
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Aggressive prosecution of leakers of classified information and broad electronic surveillance programs deter government sources from speaking to journalists.
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In August, Sessions announced a governmentwide crackdown on leakers, prompting Trump to once again praise his Justice Department head.
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His administration is also riven with leakers, and the cronies are tasked with identifying them and rooting them out.
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But it's an embarrassment for a company that prides itself in secrecy and aggressively goes after leaks and leakers.
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In his memo, Mr. Comey explained how he hoped to catch one of the leakers to set an example.
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Lawyers and journalism specialists have generally argued that the Espionage Act applies to leakers, not to publishers or journalists.
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If they don't, it will be left for patriotic leakers, and journalists, to make sure the truth comes out.
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President Donald Trump has compared White House leakers with spies and mused obliquely to other officials about executing them.
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To begin with, Obama has cultivated a reputation as showing zero tolerance to leakers of classified secrets during his administration.
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Your communications director, Sean Spicer, is starting to remind people of "Captain Queeg" with his crackdown on White House leakers.
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White House spokesman Sean Spicer said at a news briefing that the Trump administration intends to be tough on leakers.
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With that being said, the president adds, leakers are traitors and cowards, and we will find out who they are.
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The Obama and Trump administrations have gone after an unprecedented number of national security leakers under the century-old law.
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President Trump accused "Little Adam Schiff," a Democratic congressman, of being "one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington."
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Donald Trump has made attacking leakers his signature move in response to revelations of questionable conduct in the White House.
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Reporters won't have to submit Freedom of Information Act requests or rely on leakers to find out what investigators discover.
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It will have to expel or reeducate the leakers and those disloyal without instilling a witch hunt's sense of dread.
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Winner-Davis said her daughter wasn't especially political and had never praised past leakers such as Edward Snowden to her.
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President Obama was notoriously aggressive in his policies toward leakers, to the consternation of many journalists and civil liberties lawyers.
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The FBI is totally unable to stop the national security "leakers" that have permeated our government for a long time.
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A military judge imposed a prison sentence of 35 years, dramatically longer than the sentences other accused leakers have received.
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Then Trump, who had grown obsessed with the leaking problem, told Sadler he wanted to know who the leakers were.
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Or is a president who routinely bashes the media and threatens to jail leakers finally turning his rhetoric into reality?
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The joke was shared with the news media, igniting a firestorm in which the president personally promised to pursue leakers.
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That charge alarmed First Amendment advocates, who saw it as a milestone in the Obama administration's criminal crackdown on leakers.
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" -- The whodunit continues: Page Six said multiple suspects, "including Lauren Sanchez," are "being probed as leakers of Bezos nude pics.
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Among the most famous leakers are: ■ Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers to The Times and The Washington Post.
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"The attorney general has been very clear that we're after the leakers, not the journalist," Mr. Rosenstein said on Fox.
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In it, Mr. Scaramucci was quoted unleashing a vulgar tirade against leakers and the president's chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon.
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It's time for the Attorney General to launch a thorough investigation to unmask the leakers, before the damage gets worse.
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You need to have laws against leaking—and occasionally enforce them—so that leakers think twice about what they're leaking.
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His new communications director Anthony Scaramucci made headlines after railing against leakers in an expletive-laden conversation with a reporter.
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Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) on Monday accused the Trump administration of "weaponizing" the Justice Department in its pursuit of leakers.
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Unless that network employs mind readers and engages in paranormal activity, those leaks are felonies and the leakers should be prosecuted.
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Here now is the author of the brand-new book, "Liars, Leakers and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy".
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And finally tonight, my new book, "Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy" came out this week.
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Thankfully, however, she's not hiding her considerable light, as proven by her appearance on LA Leakers, which you can watch above.
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Former President Barack Obama also went after leakers during his time in office but left the media out of the fray.
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Another program scans outbound emails for the known email addresses of major media organizations in an effort to spot corporate leakers.
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Instead, he chose to parrot the Trump administration's go-to refrain in these situations — that the real issue here is leakers.
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We're still presumably months away from the official Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL announcement, but that isn't stopping the leakers.
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It has been used to prosecute 11 leakers (the majority of which occurred under Obama), none of whom have been journalists.
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In February, Trump directed the Justice Department to investigate "criminal leaks" and claimed those leakers were holdovers from the Obama administration.
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It's worth noting here that no president was harder on leakers than the man who preceded Trump in the White House.
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"Leakers" who believe that settling a score is more important than adhering to their oath, displaying integrity or following the Constitution.
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Its message: Leakers will be particularly targeted if the intelligence they give journalists suggests that Russia helped Trump win the election.
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And he soon plans to announce a stepped-up effort to go after leakers, a project that Trump himself has pressed.
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Or, the leakers do so to undermine Trump policies they sincerely believe — in some cases correctly — are disastrous for the nation.
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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Wednesday said that "so-called leakers" in the West Wing should be fired.
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But it also appears to have aggressively pursued administrative penalties against leakers, according to a newly unearthed document published on Tuesday.
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Comey, who was tasked with finding leakers in the Trump administration, immediately became a leaker himself when it served his purposes.
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And last year, Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared a vast expansion of the Justice Department's efforts at rooting out government leakers.
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Some Trump critics in the press, people you'd think would be celebrating the leakers, were worried about the precedent they set.
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President Trump's former communications director, Mike Dubke, said he regrets not firing or removing leakers from the West Wing's press operation.
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Hernandez had become a central hub for not only for his own Nintendo leaks, but those of other leakers as well.
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And Trump and the Mooch had fingered Priebus as a leaker, which bugs them, even though they themselves are leakers extraordinaire.
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Comey was tasked with finding leakers in the administration but then immediately became a leaker himself when it served his purposes.
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These calls provide clues as to what a media reverse-engineered around motivated leakers could offer: context, explanation, meaning and narrative.
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This was the man who was tasked with finding leakers and became a leaker himself the minute it served his purposes.
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Mr. Trump has declared war on White House leakers, and he says he wants his chief of staff to stop them.
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And that&aposs why I wrote the book, "Liars, Leakers and Liberals" detailing the power structure, trying to bring the President down.
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Worse, from the perspective of security-minded companies (and better, in the view of potential leakers), is the increasing capacity of smartphones.
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Even without federal shield laws, longtime Justice Department policy has been to take the same approach, investigating the leakers, not the journalists.
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Leaks do exist, but the leakers don't have much to gain from freely posting photographs, schematics, and specs sheets on the internet.
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"I said I was eager to find leakers and would like to nail one to the door as a message," Comey wrote.
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For some time last year, Trump even carried with him a handwritten list of people suspected to be leakers undermining his agenda.
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She was the one who brought the article to the president's attention and Dubke promptly blamed the quotes on "leakers," Sims writes.
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"Keep in mind that leakers could be intentionally placed bad actors, not just employees making a one-off bad decision," one wrote.
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Plus don&apost forget my book "Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy" available wherever books are sold.
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The Post reports that the IRA was troubled enough by those messages that they launched an internal investigation to identify potential leakers.
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Scaramucci also reiterated a point he made on TV: He vowed to aggressively hunt down and fire leakers in the White House.
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Two US-based leakers in particular were singled out as having provided information to "bloggers," serving as cautionary tales to the audience.
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"Leakers" who willingly share a secure cable to create perceptions about what happened in a room they weren't in are not patriots.
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Given Trump's tweets about leakers and his claims that reporters should not use anonymous sources, this position is alarming to U.S. journalists.
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And, even if the leakers didn't have an agenda -- and they will -- what those leaks produced would be bad news for Sessions.
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Scaramucci also complains about "leakers," accusing Priebus of being one of the culprits, and again promises to fire multiple White House staffers.
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The seizure suggested that prosecutors will maintain the aggressive tactics to identify government leakers, which were also employed under former President Obama.
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Sadler then stunned the room: To be completely honest, she said, she thought one of the worst leakers was Schlapp, her boss.
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Back on September 10, Axios reported that Sessions suggested giving polygraph tests to government officials in order to suss out the leakers.
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But using the Espionage Act against leakers of classified info is on a different level than leaking info obtained by email hacks.
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President Trump may think he has sent a stern warning to leakers and independent bureaucrats unwilling to toe the White House line.
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The leakers continue to reveal this fact and Trump's fraudulence, something that has sent mini-Trump Scaramucci into a fit of pique.
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The president has repeatedly expressed a desire to find and muzzle the leakers within the White House and his administration more broadly.
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Perhaps not surprisingly, and even given the Obama administration's relatively aggressive stance, instances of leakers' being hauled into the dock are rare.
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This is the first prosecution under the Espionage Act since Trump took office but the Justice Department's attempts to stifle leakers aren't new.
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Finally, tonight, my new book, "Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy," comes out in just over a week.
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At trial, Chelsea said she couldn't imagine leaks changing the world — but the leakers who came after her had seen the tactics work.
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In contrast, the activists still hold First Amendment grievances with his administration, pointing out Obama had curbed disclosure of information and prosecuted leakers.
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But if the leakers are "traitors and cowards," then they quite clearly exist, and are quite clearly a big problem for the administration.
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Recently, to rally his employees, Zuckerberg has taken a different tack—promising to track down leakers and putting Facebook on a war footing.
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" From an interview with John Dickerson of CBS News, when asked how he'll treat leakers on his watch: "They're going to get fired.
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PIRRO: Your book, the Russia Hoax, my book, "Liars, Leakers and Liberals." if we had had that, we could have done another chapter.
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"I said I was eager to find leakers and would like to nail one to the door as a message," Mr. Comey wrote.
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"I have been asking Director Comey & others, from the beginning of my administration, to find the LEAKERS in the intelligence community," he tweeted.
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President Trump has been particularly critical of leaks in his administration, frequently tweeting about his intention to root out leakers from his office.
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Only by allowing an irresponsibly broad dissemination did the ultimate leakers and wrongdoers sense tacit permission and become emboldened to ignore the law. .
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" In a tweet Thursday, Trump said the "spotlight has finally been put on the low-life leakers," adding that they "will be caught.
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On Thursday, Pirro appeared on The View to promote her new book Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy.
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The court also said that, in order to be criminal, leaks had to be intended to generate some material gain for the leakers.
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The website, which features encrypted messaging apps like Signal and Peerio, offers instructions to leakers for sending information digitally or through the mail.
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Political appointees have lashed out at suspected leakers and relieved them of work assignments, even in the absence of proof, career employees said.
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Under President Barack Obama, the Justice Department aggressively pursued reporters' private communications in a hunt for leakers, but backed off after intense criticism.
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"I said I was eager to find leakers and would like to nail one to the door as a message," Mr. Comey said.
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Maybe you agree with the Obama administration's decision to prosecute some leakers, though Hess (and other experts) thinks that created a worrying precedent.
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WikiLeaks, an internet-based "dead letter drop" for leakers of classified or sensitive information, was founded by Australian citizen Julian Assange in 2006.
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Most recently, White House leakers told Axios about a fully-bonkers interest the President allegedly expressed in using nuclear bombs to fight hurricanes.
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On Sunday, Trump tweeted that the "real story turns out to be SURVEILLANCE and LEAKING" and called for the leakers to be found.
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It was a particularly curious moment for a former director who was asked by the president to fight the leakers in the government.
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In an interview with reporters on the White House driveway, Mr. Scaramucci vowed to rid the Oval Office of disloyal aides and leakers.
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He pledged to rout out White House leakers and threatened to fire anyone on the communications staff who doesn't get with the program.
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"I have been asking Director Comey & others, from the beginning of my administration, to find the LEAKERS in the intelligence community," he wrote.
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REUTERS/Yves Herman Trump aides' bid to plug leaks creates unease among some civil servantsThey're checking cellphones, tightening access and looking for leakers.
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What makes that reference most troubling is that Comey was the person with the responsibility to find the leakers in the Trump administration.
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" Sessions announced Friday a governmentwide crackdown on leakers and put the media on notice that it "cannot place lives at risk with impunity.
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You can see this kind of thing in the pages of "Liars, Leakers and Liberals" by the Fox News opinion host Jeanine Pirro.
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But given the amount of classified material making its way into the news lately, it looks like the leakers are winning the war.
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And even a cursory examination of the leaks about which Trump is complaining reveals that the real problem isn't leakers, or hostile bureaucrats.
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Just like Russia The FBI is totally unable to stop the national security "leakers" that have permeated our government for a long time.
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Every president inveighs against leakers and bemoans the kiss-and-tell books; no president, to my knowledge, has attempted to impose such a pledge.
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It&aposs like it&aposs rough, you know, and I am not saying they&aposre leakers or liars, but those are very liberal people.
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Those accusations were especially common early on in the Trump administration, where aides would try to pass along names of "leakers" to senior staff.
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Can you talk about the leakers that have been most useful to you and the ones that have been the least useful to you?
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But the president who so often talks about fake news is now acknowledging that White House leakers are a real problem for him. Jessica?
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I believe by the way that&aposs why they&aposre not declassifying everything because they may have a serious felony case against the leakers.
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The bullying is an ongoing circle passing from President to administration officials to leakers to the press, who then hand it back to Trump.
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Scaramucci threatened to fire all of the assistants to the president to smoke out leakers, and he said that Priebus would be resigning soon.
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" Scaramucci then appeared to read out a statement blasting leakers inside the White House, saying, "I don't like what they're doing to my friend.
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This week we have heard "leakers" provide details from one-on-one meetings held when they weren't in the room or even the building.
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He has vowed to prosecute more leakers, and Winner may just be paraded as a threat to other would-be purveyors of classified intelligence.
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"Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes (where are E-mails & DNC server) & Intel leakers!" he wrote.
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But don't drop the ball on an equally important probe into how the universe of potential leakers grew so large in the first place.
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" As part of the search for leakers in the FBI, Comey expressed "the value of putting a head on a pike as a message.
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When thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables were illegally exposed by WikiLeaks, FSOs were angry at the leakers and the publishers of the stolen material.
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" Pirro had appeared on "The View" on Thursday to promote her new book, "Liars, Leakers and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy.
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" Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal attorney, on Wednesday blamed the reports on "disgruntled" members of Mueller's team who are "a bunch of sneaky, unethical leakers.
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For example, under a special prosecutor, an investigation could focus on only the leakers of information while ignoring the fundamental question of Moscow's interference.
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Since President Obama entered office in 2009, his administration has used a 1917 anti-espionage law against leakers more than all other administrations combined.
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" The White House did not respond to a request for comment on whether Trump still considers Brennan and Clapper to be "liars and leakers.
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Where technology and economics collide Apple wages a constant war on leakers designed to ensure it can unveil new products on its own terms.
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If Winner's prosecution becomes "this big thing where we're not going to tolerate leakers," Winner-Davis said, her daughter won't receive a fair trial.
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In recent years, The Times and many other outlets have added to their web pages a "secure drop" that can offer leakers total anonymity.
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" — TREVOR NOAH "He is said to be so paranoid about leakers in his White House, he wants everyone to submit to lie detector tests.
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After Prime Minister Theresa May complained bitterly to President Trump, he denounced the leaks on Thursday and vowed to find and punish the leakers.
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In his interview with CNN, Scaramucci said Priebus could be one of the leakers that he has vowed to weed out of the administration.
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Finally, in February, the FBI caught one of the most connected Nintendo leakers of all time—a hacker who went by the name RyanRocks.
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"The FBI is totally unable to stop the national security 'leakers' that have permeated our government for a long time," Trump wrote on Twitter.
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"Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes (where are E-mails & DNC server) & Intel leakers!" he tweeted.
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Moreover, as FBI director, Comey showed no particular sympathy to leakers and his department advanced the most extreme definitions of what constituted FBI information.
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President Donald Trump and his senior aides haven't been able to stem the flow of damaging information despite active efforts to flush out leakers.
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President Donald Trump has declared war on government leakers, but it will be a difficult one for this administration, or any administration, to win.
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Other schematics we've seen from more reliable leakers have featured true edge-to-edge, bezel-free displays, with a "function area" built into the screen.
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And my book, "Liars, Leakers, and Liberals" talks about Lisa Page, Peter Strzok, and all of these people at the higher echelon of the FBI.
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"I have this warning for would-be leakers: Don't do it," Sessions said at a press conference, alongside Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence.
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Industrious leakers like evleaks and Roland Quandt, who, year after year, preempt flagship phone announcements with detailed images and specs of the devices to come.
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Top White House advisor Kellyanne Conway is also warning that big changes are coming and that these leakers could soon be kicked to the curb.
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"The FBI is totally unable to stop the national security "leakers" that have permeated our government for a long time," Trump tweeted in two messages.
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JUDGE JEANINE PIRRO, AUTHOR, LIARS, LEAKERS AND LIBERALS: Well, there is no question, Sean, that the hatred towards this president is unparalleled in American history.
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Other NSC staffers had begun using encrypted communications because of fears that Flynn and his deputies were monitoring their cellphones and emails to find leakers.
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"Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes (where are emails & DNC server) & Intel leakers!" the President tweeted Tuesday.
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So, when i was speaking to you last night Ryan, I said it was unpatriotic that you would weren't telling me who the leakers were.
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The Obama administration was doggedly successful, for example, in enforcing the Espionage Act, drawing criticism by some for the number of cases pursued against leakers.
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Leaks are nothing new; Trump has been publicly complaining about them for months, and the conservative media has often criticized leakers in the Trump administration.
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Rather than taking a job in good faith and leaking information, it implies would-be leakers should apply for jobs with the purpose of leaking.
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The design of this phone is based on rumors and schematics from Steve Hemmerstoffer, aka OnLeaks, one of the most prolific smartphone leakers working today.
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Trump's private attorney, Marc Kasowitz, seized on the admission, casting the former FBI director as one of the "leakers" set on undermining the Trump administration.
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"This administration has been historically active in pursuing prosecution of leakers, and the intelligence community fully supports this effort," Litt wrote in the 2012 statement.
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The communications information was secretly obtained going back to the journalist's college years as part of the department's hunt to identify and prosecute government leakers.
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"Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington," Trump tweeted in February.
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Mike Pompeo's senior aides are hunting for leakers inside the State Department after the new secretary of state became infuriated about several recent news stories.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions has called for putting leakers in jail, and President Trump allegedly even floated the idea of putting journalists themselves in jail.
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Three employees have been arrested since 2100 for taking classified files, but there is fear that one or more leakers may still be in place.
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At a minimum, he violated clear rules against leaking such information to the media, a curious decision for the person tasked previously with finding leakers.
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For most of American history, the government did not punish leakers through criminal action, but in the 21st century, leak prosecutions have become more common.
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It was evil, it was corrupt, it was dirty cops, it was leakers and liars, and this should never, ever happen to another president, ever.
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Presidents are rarely afraid to wrangle and bully reporters, and Mr. Trump's predecessor, President Barack Obama, was pilloried by news organizations for aggressively prosecuting leakers.
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Leaks often bring to light information that the leaker considers important for public discourse, and it is not uncommon for leakers to have personal motives.
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Stephen Colbert took particular aim at Mr. Trump's efforts to blame the leakers who revealed Trump associates' contacts with Russian intelligence over the last year.
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Anthony Scaramucci, President Trump's new White House communications director, reportedly said he wants to "kill all the leakers" who are disclosing inside information to reporters.
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It was evil, it was corrupt, it was dirty cups, it was leakers and liars, and this should never ever happened to another president ever.
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Mr. Pompeo went hard at leakers, saying he had moved the C.I.A.'s counterintelligence operations directly under his control in part to combat the problem.
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Obama granted Manning clemency in January, saying she had taken responsibility for her crime and her sentence was disproportionate to those received by other leakers.
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Over the past eight years, the administration has prosecuted nine cases involving whistle-blowers and leakers, compared with only three by all previous administrations combined.
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Scaramucci told The New Yorker in a piece published Thursday that he wants to "kill all the leakers" who are disclosing inside information to reporters.
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Newly appointed Trump communications director Anthony Scaramucci said Thursday he has a "very, very good idea" who the senior leakers are in the White House.
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It's believed his arrest is expected to be part of a global intelligence operation that will crackdown on a global, covert network of intel leakers.
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Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg deploy a "secret police" to catch leakers in the company, The Guardian reported Friday, citing a person who worked there.
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Nunes also railed against special counsel Robert Mueller, who he accused of being "good at leaking, but not so good at finding major felony leakers."
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While Comey seemed open to the idea, he also cautioned Trump that going after leakers and the journalists they talk to can be legally thorny.
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In an interview with the Wall Street Journal last month, President Trump expressed his disappointment with Sessions for his hesitation in finding and presumably punishing leakers.
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JUDGE JEANINE PIRRO, "LIARS, LEAKERS AND LIBERALS" AUTHOR: Well, you know, what&aposs amazing about all of this is that it fits right into the plan.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions has told associates he wants to put the entire National Security Council staff through a lie detector test to root out leakers.
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Once connected, potential leakers select a different area: police surveillance, fracking protests, undercover policing, police misconduct, or information on Prevent, the UK government's counter-radicalisation program.
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Trump on Friday again revived attacks against federal law-enforcement agencies on social media, accusing them of being unable to stop "leakers" from talking to reporters.
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"The lie detector starts..." Lizza reports that Scaramucci broke off this thought without finishing it -- amid a broader rant about how leakers had broken the law.
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This quote then puts to lie Scaramucci's explanation that he tagged Priebus in the tweet to show it was a united front against the leakers. 9.
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" Trump reportedly proceeded to make a list of 10 staffers he believed he could not trust, as well as five who he believed were not "leakers.
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One tool Sessions has for prosecuting leakers is the Espionage Act, a World War One-era law that was designed to stop leaks to America's enemies.
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The president carried the handwritten list of potential leakers, and would describe the need to get rid of "snakes" within the administration, a source told Axios.
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But first, I want to address my recent appearance on "The View" to discuss my new book, "liars, Leakers and Liberals" and the events that followed.
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First, he intends to "[call] out those who grant a platform to these leakers and so-called transparency activists" (we're not quite sure what that means).
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Russian Pwn All The ThingsJune 15, 2016 The computer or virtual machine where the leakers processed the documents sent to Gawker used the Russian language setting.
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His administration has aggressively prosecuted leakers, spied on the Associated Press, restricted access for photographers, and practiced "retroactive redaction" on court transcripts, among other eyebrow raisers.
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Trump makes rare trip to Clinton state, hoping to win back New Hampshire MORE (R-Ariz.) on Sunday echoed Chaffetz's call for leakers to be punished.
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The country doesn't have a constitutional protection for freedom of speech, it can prosecute government leakers, and it offers wide privacy protections that restrict public information.
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What the leakers are doing, then, is more like whistleblowing than political campaigning: calling attention to a scandal that otherwise might have flown under the radar.
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In a tweet on Monday, the president minimized the idea that leakers presented a serious problem — but at the same time, he threatened to confront them.
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He took tremendous abuse — the media and the other side and the bad ones, the leakers, the liars, the dirty cops, they want to destroy him.
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WASHINGTON — In the five days since he was named White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci has vowed to hunt down leakers and fire anyone he catches.
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Her experience, paired with Trump's continuing tough talk about finding and punishing government leakers, could make others think twice about trying to follow in her footsteps.
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But law enforcement agencies, particularly in states with shield laws, have sought to track down the leakers through internal investigations, not by seizing reporters' equipment and notes.
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After the New York Times ran a front-page story about the NSA's activities in 2005 -- years after their internal disclosures -- Binney and Drake were suspected leakers.
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Even if it is all the conjecture of leakers currently, having a baby seems to be right in line with what Pippa and her husband had planned.
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It can make a renewed effort to identify and punish leakers in intelligence agencies — something Attorney General Jeff Sessions is expected to do in the coming days.
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It&aposs probably a pre-buttal by leakers at the FBI and the DOJ because they know the I.G. is coming out with some pretty damning stuff.
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Minutes after Scaramucci's tweet, the Department of Justice issued a statement reiterating that leakers will be investigated, and even jailed: Worth noting: financial disclosure forms aren't classified.
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"Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes (where are E-mails & DNC server) & Intel leakers!" he tweeted on Tuesday morning.
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But I mean at the end of the day, I think the President has a very good idea of who the leakers are inside the White House.
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Trump has repeatedly used Twitter to attack reports on Russian election meddling as "fake news" and "witch hunts" and denounce leakers of classified information on the issue.
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Many of the sources for major media about various Trump associates involved in the multiple scandals, such as those involving Scott Pruitt, are not leakers but whistleblowers.
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He violated core FBI rules in removing the memos, and the man tasked to find leakers became a leaker as soon as it suited his own interests.
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Whose administration then set new Olympics-level records when it came to rejecting Freedom of Information Act requests and persecuting suspected leakers of information to the media.
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" Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper; former CIA Director John Brennan; Mark Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee — all were "liars and leakers.
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"We're going to find the leakers and they're going to pay a big price," he told reporters in the Roosevelt Room during a meeting with Republican lawmakers.
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Mark McKinnon of Showtime's "The Circus" ("Inside the wildest political show on earth") interviewed Axios' Jonathan Swan about White House leaks and leakers: Watch the full video:
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Trump early Monday wrote on Twitter that the Democrats made up the story about Russia's election interference and said Congress should be focusing on searching for leakers.
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Will it be reviewed only on a need-to-know basis by those working on this investigation, or made available more broadly to search for other leakers?
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The "terrorism" heading most likely makes no legal difference, however — just as prosecutors can use the words of the Espionage Act to charge leakers, not just spies.
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Leaking has always been a routine part of how Washington works, but for most of American history the government did not deal with leakers through criminal prosecution.
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"We're going to find the leakers, and they're going to pay a big price," he told reporters in the Roosevelt Room during a meeting with GOP leadership.
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"I'm pretty sure [LucasFilm] is feeding a ton of [bullshit] to leakers," one commenter wrote under the post, two months before Rise of Skywalker had hit theaters.
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And eventually even the show's writers' room got in on the drama, too, forming secret alliances with fans to flush out the spoiler leakers and shame them.
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But after an employee asked whether the company should issue a report about how many leakers Facebook had found and fired, Mr. Zuckerberg played down the idea.
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Yes, letting leakers use it may induce people to do foolish things in the poorly based hope they'll be redeemed by a future consequence they cannot know.
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All right, joining us now, author of the brand new book, "Liars, Leakers and Liberals, The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy", Judge Jeanine Pirro in the house.
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If the allegations in the indictment are true, it means that Wikileaks pushed leakers well beyond the bounds of "whistleblower" status and actively supplied them with hacking tools.
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In the past, the software giant has aggressively pursued Windows leakers, and the company even scanned a bloggers Hotmail account to track down a Windows 8 leak once.
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Last year, the company held a meeting with employees where it discussed how it plans to prevent leaks, talked about how leakers were caught, and answered employees' questions.
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That test is one of several options in the government's toolkit for hunting down the leakers in the West Wing, the intelligence community, or wherever they might be.
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As far as the Trump leakers are concerned, only one has been publicly apprehended and charged, mostly due to sloppy techniques on the part of the alleged leaker.
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Obama's attack on leakers represents, at its core, a full-throated endorsement of the essential underpinning of Bush's policies: the need to keep the American public in ignorance.
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That all happened before The New Yorker published its interview with Scaramucci, where he said Priebus would soon resign and that he wanted to kill White House leakers.
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Either leakers are purposefully and possibly illegally undermining Trump in their conversations with reporters -- or the press is dreaming up these stories in a separate plot against him.
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"We're going to find the leakers, and they're going to pay a big price," the president told reporters in the Roosevelt Room during a meeting with Republican lawmakers.
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The Trump administration is determined to bust leakers, both in the White House and across U.S. intelligence agencies, who it feels continue to undermine and humiliate the president.
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The recent detention of Reality Winner, who is currently being prosecuted under the Espionage Act, has political activists concerned that leakers risk more today than they ever have.
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One more thing: Trump tweeted on Monday that Schiff "is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington," and then said in the same day that Rep.
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Google, the self-proclaiming "don't be evil" conglomerate that has wormed its way into all of our lives has a similar stance on company leakers: find and punish.
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Trump has opened up a war on leakers within the intelligence community, blaming Obama-administration holdovers for a series of media reports linking campaign officials to Russian interests.
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President Donald Trump is so concerned about leakers in the White House that he has repeatedly suggested using lie-detector tests to weed them out, Politico reported Tuesday.
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Less well known is how Google tries to staunch this flow with confidentiality agreements and programs like Stop Leaks, a web portal where employees can report suspected leakers.
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Trump has repeatedly taken aim at the intelligence community for "illegally" leaking information, focusing on attacking leakers rather than on the allegations of Russian interference in the election.
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It was not clear whether Ms. Pirro was planning to use the book she already has in the works, tentatively titled "Liars, Leakers and Liberals," as a vehicle.
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Some anonymous leakers used Reddit to provide details of episodes of the series before they were broadcast, including Bran's ascension and Jon's stabbing of Daenerys in the finale.
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But despite promoting a culture of transparency, the company has always warned employees of leaks, and even developed a dedicated email address for employees to report suspected leakers.
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Mr. Sessions is not the first Trump administration official to go after Mr. Assange publicly, signaling that the White House intends to take a hard line against leakers.
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White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said Thursday that leakers who disclosed information related to national security or military operations used to be hanged for their "treasonous" actions.
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Since Priebus was tagged in the tweet, the media made the assumption the chief of staff was the leaker because "journalists know who the leakers are," Scaramucci said.
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The recently tapped communications chief also said he believes some leaks are coming from the communications office, which he plans to deal with before he addresses other leakers.
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Furious that Buzzfeed printed the unsubstantiated allegations in their totality (which CNN did not), Trump chided news organizations who ran with the allegations, as well as the possible leakers.
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Reliable leakers OnLeaks and Ice Universe both report that there'll be a 27G model of the device, while the latter claims that it will also support 25W fast-charging.
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READ: The U.S. just charged Julian Assange under the Espionage Act The Obama and Trump Administrations have prosecuted an unprecedented number of national security leakers under the Espionage Act.
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It's hard to say whether the White House is trying to cloak its communications in the face of foreign adversaries or from the prying eyes of would-be leakers.
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On one hand, you have a boss who's been (perhaps generously) described as a "wide-set dingus" with a tenuous grasp on reality and a tendency to muzzle leakers.
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The Justice Department is going after leakers Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley peppered Comey, pressing him on what the FBI was doing to stop the recent spate of leaks.
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As it tweets in lockstep with the President-elect about punishing leakers involved in the Russian hacking scandal, WikiLeaks somehow managed to come up with something even more questionable.
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Bottom line: Sessions seems to understand that it's extremely tough to successfully prosecute leakers, especially when they are career intelligence professionals who are skilled at covering their digital tracks.
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Clinton had one of her aides download the emails of her top campaign staff to find leakers from the 2008 campaign, a source told the authors of the book.
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But Trump's obsession with the leakers, and those who are eager to publish these leaks, is consistent with his longtime political strategy of demonizing the press and professional bureaucrats.
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The Trump administration wants to come down hard on leakers, and this is the first known instance of the Justice Department targeting a reporter's data under President Trump. 3.
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"I could care less if the [intelligence] leakers figure out who my source is," Stone wrote me, "because neither he nor I know the source of the WikiLeaks disclosures."
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Former President Obama commuted Manning's 35-year sentence in 2017, explaining that her punishment after serving nearly seven years behind bars was "disproportionate" to that of other convicted leakers.
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Trump was, as we've been told by Comey and by leakers inside the White House, enraged by Democratic efforts to delegitimize his victory with their talk of Russian collusion.
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The charges are the latest indication of the Trump administration's efforts to root out alleged leakers within the government, something that prosecutors emphasized in announcing the charges on Wednesday.
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" For being "weak" on Clinton's emails: "Attorney General Jeff sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes (where are E-mails and DNC server) & Intel leakers!
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"We're going to find the leakers and they're going to pay a big price," he told reporters in the Roosevelt Room during a meeting with Republican lawmakers. http://bit.
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According to a court motion filed by the defense, the clandestine tracking software was sent in an attempt to catch the leakers and sanction them for contempt of court.
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He vowed that the Justice Department would bring criminal charges against leakers of classified information, and said that the F.B.I. had created a new unit to manage the cases.
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This week, media organizations like Breitbart News and Fox News responded to damaging stories about the president by attacking The Times and The Post for relying on anonymous leakers.
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The search for leakers inside the administration contrasts with the White House's defense that the book was fueled by "disgruntled employees," offered by press secretary Sarah Sanders and others.
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Trump aides insist that shrinking the NSC has nothing to do with impeachment, despite concerns on the left that Trump is trying to root out potential leakers and whistleblowers.
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Blaming leaks and leakers is a fear tactic that is intended to make us point fingers at each other and distract us from focusing on the real decision-makers.
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Trump on Monday morning called Schiff "one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington," and accused him of sharing confidential information, something the White House has previously suggested.
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He held a press conference earlier this year to announce that the Justice Department would aggressively target criminal leakers — an effort the agency says has resulted in 27 investigations.
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I have been asking Director Comey & others, from the beginning of my administration, to find the LEAKERS in the intelligence community..... Meanwhile, Trump's administration has rushed to defend him.
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The assertion here is that leakers in the executive branch effectively sabotaged the President's pick for the job, and in doing so exercised undue control over the West Wing itself.
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Donald Trump's tweets seem to provide some catharsis for the man himself, allowing him to work out some anger at Hillary Clinton, leakers inside his own administration, and FAKE NEWS.
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So, I for one am sick and tired of these liars, leakers and liberals attacking our President and our democracy when they are the ones who tried to frame him.
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As CIA director, Pompeo was brought on the show to answer vital questions about intelligence and how the White House plans on handling their continued issue with leakers revealing info.
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The other Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee spent most of their time casting doubt on the idea that Russia would have wanted Trump to be president and lambasting leakers.
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""However, when I put out a tweet and I put Reince's name in the tweet, they're all making the assumption that it's him because journalists know who the leakers are.
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However, when I put out a tweet and I put Reince's name in a tweet, they're all making the assumption that it's him because journalists know who the leakers are.
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A new release from the malicious leaker or leakers known as The ShadowBrokers contains evidence the National Security Agency hacked a banking network used to transfer money between financial institutions.
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Trump also posed for photos with Fox New host Jeanine Pirro and her new book, "Liars, Leakers and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy," in the Oval Office.
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" In a subsequent follow-up tweet, he added that he wanted the "leakers in DOJ" to say if the report would come out, adding: "I've had enough of those disappointments.
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Still, Ms. Manning is different from him and most other accused leakers because she disclosed a large volume of documents covering many topics, rather than one or two particular secrets.
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" "Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington, right up there with Comey, Warner, Brennan and Clapper!
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Manning's lawyers argue in the letter that she's already served more time than typical leakers and call on Obama to extend her the same leniency he has to other offenders.
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Advocates for the change argue that prosecutors have spent inordinate time and resources trying to find leakers that could be more easily detected via the reporting news organization's subpoenaed records.
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The Obama administration prosecuted 9 or 10 different "leakers," according to the New York Times, which was twice as many as the total number of leak-related cases beforehand combined.
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But they can also lose out, forced to chuck thousands of worthless, poorly-moulded cases into the trash when a phone's design isn't what was predicted by analysts and leakers.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a government-wide crackdown on leakers on Friday, including a review of Justice Department policies on subpoenas for media outlets that publish such sensitive information.
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Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington, right up there with Comey, Warner, Brennan and Clapper!
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Mr. Shah stressed that the situation was an internal matter, and in an appearance last month on "Fox & Friends," the president's preferred TV program, Ms. Sanders targeted leakers in particular.
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The relationship between the two men has improved marginally since midsummer, as Mr. Sessions has made a public display of hunting for the leakers among the administration's national security officials.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a government-wide crackdown on leakers in August, including a review of Justice Department policies on subpoenas for media outlets that publish such sensitive information.
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One unnamed Breitbart source described the leakers as a network of "sleeper cells" and said that Priebus knows who the offenders are but has refused to do anything about them.
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However, as we've noted in the past, perhaps the greatest leakers of secure and private information is the very intelligence community that is charged with shielding us from those evildoers.
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" After his appointment was announced, Scaramucci was very vocal about leaks coming out of the White House — even telling a New Yorker reporter he wanted to "kill all the leakers.
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Trump has long been weary of leakers and "Never Trumpers" undermining his agenda and has steadily jettisoned career officials over the last three years whose views differed from his own.
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The Obama administration pioneered the most aggressive legal war on national security leakers that America has seen since Watergate, but it typically focused on actual leaks that had taken place.
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However, when I put out a tweet and I put Reince's name in the tweet, they're all making the assumption that it's him because journalists know who the leakers are.
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His latest tirade against leakers came Wednesday morning, following a series of Washington Post and New York Times reports about contacts with Russian officials from his administration, and previously his campaign.
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The FBI made good on President Donald Trump's repeated promise to "find the leakers" Monday, arresting and charging 25-year-old Reality Leigh Winner with leaking classified documents to the media.
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Joining us now, author of the brand new book, it&aposs just out and it&aposs called "Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy", Judge Jeanine Pirro.
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However, proponents argue that this is a matter of national security and that both leakers and the publications that encourage them share secret information could be a threat to national security.
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As detailed by The Outline, the audio describes the lengths Apple goes to in order to keep information about new products out of the hands of leakers, competitors, and the press.
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On Twitter, Mr Trump calls the former heads of the FBI and CIA, as well as an ex-director of national intelligence and Democrats on Congress's intelligence committees, "liars and leakers".
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CIA Director Mike Pompeo on Thursday called WikiLeaks a "hostile intelligence service," using his first public speech as spy agency chief to denounce leakers who have plagued U.S. intelligence.
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The device, which still hasn't been officially announced, was reportedly delayed until later this fall after major development issues, and was called, among other things, "definitely not sexy" by the leakers.
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Here now with details -- wow -- this really brings in some light to Jeanine Pirro&aposs new book, "Liars, Leakers and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti- Trump Conspiracy", Judge Jeanine Pirro.
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Giphy Drip, drip, drip: All presidents have dealt with their fair share of leaks — Barack Obama even took the step of prosecuting triple the number of leakers than his predecessors combined.
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Also, the leaker or leakers known as Guccifer 85033 emailed reporters using an internet address registered to a Russian anonymity service that does not appear to be available to the public.
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The two women accused of running the Orchids of Asia Day Spa claim Florida officials have leaked the naked surveillance video of Robert Kraft ... and they want the leakers punished ASAP.
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INSIDER ATTACK EXPERT SAYS WHITE HOUSE EFFORTS AGAINST LEAKERS COULD BACKFIRE: An expert on insider threats says White House efforts to punish staffers could backfire and exacerbate the administration's leaking problem.
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The leakers must not be allowed to break the law or to endanger lives, but that does not mean that some of their work is not crucial to safeguarding our democracy.
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A group of suspected National Security Agency (NSA) leakers known as the ShadowBrokers on Tuesday announced more details of its monthly subscription service to provide remaining documents from its NSA cache.
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Sixth on the list is "Liars, Leakers and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy," Fox News host Jeanine Pirro's book that Trump promoted from the Oval Office last month.
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The White House has said on multiple occasions, however, that Sadler remains in her job while "so-called leakers," as Trump referred to them in a tweet, are being hunted down.
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Roger Stone, a controversial GOP operative and avid supporter of President Trump, blasted White House leakers in an interview with The Hill, complaining that too many Trump staffers have divided loyalties.
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US President Donald Trump is so paranoid about leakers in the White House that he has repeatedly suggested that all staff members should undergo a lie-detector test, Politico reported Tuesday.
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Also on Trump's liars and leakers list: Former FBI director James Comey, whom he fired for not exonerating him in the Russia probe, and former director of national intelligence James Clapper.
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This White House leaks so much that meetings called to bemoan leaks begin with acknowledgement the bemoaning will be leaked, which is promptly leaked...by several leakers in a smallish room.
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While we don't know for certain who specifically is leaking to Boyle, the leakers are likely, at the very least, sympathetic with the worldview and aims of the administration's Bannon wing.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions, after being chided by President Trump for being weak, recently declared a war on leakers and made clear that the news media was also on his mind.
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In addition to Nintendo's suit against the Pokémon Sword and Shield leakers, Nintendo in mid-February cut ties with Portuguese review site FNintendo, whose freelance reviewer shared screenshots from the games.
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"When I put out a tweet and I put Reince's name in the tweet, they're all making the assumption that it's him, because journalists know who the leakers are," Scaramucci said.
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I sympathize with our counterintelligence officials, who chase low-level leakers and spies even as they undoubtedly worry that their commander in chief may be subject to Kremlin leverage or blackmail.
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The tactic of shooting multiple outcomes to thwart would-be leakers goes back at least to "Dallas," which filmed several possible resolutions of its infamous "Who Shot J.R.?" mystery in 1980.
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They may also be wary of a condemning tweet from President Trump, who has vowed to be tough on leakers and has shown no reluctance to criticize his own Justice Department.
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Perhaps Mueller simply doesn't think the evidence is as conclusive as the leakers are claiming — his spokesperson's statement after all, specifically disputed BuzzFeed News's "description" and "characterization" of evidence they obtained.
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" "What I want to do is I want to fucking kill all the leakers and I want to get the president's agenda on track so we can succeed for the American people.
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Fellow tech giant Facebook, which has been plagued in recent history with innumerable scandals ranging from privacy failures to allegations of complicity in genocide, has also reportedly been cracking down on leakers.
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Get ready, tomorrow is July 1st, my new book, "Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy," comes out on July 17th, no, I think it&aposs the 16th.
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But the memo's almost boastful recounting of leakers' legal consequences is disturbing—and sure to intimidate whistleblowers who want to leak something more important than the date of the next iPhone release.
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Here's hoping we see a few more impressive demos that show off these features at the company's Pixel event on October 15th — or perhaps earlier if the leakers get to them first.
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Plus, get ready, my new book, "Liars, Leakers and Liberals: The Case against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy" comes out in June, but you can preorder it now on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
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And finally tonight, I&aposm excited to say my new book, "Liars, Leakers and Liberals: The Case against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy," is number one on the New York Times bestseller list.
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Even the Obama administration, which was more aggressive in prosecuting leakers than any before it, didn't bother tracking down the source of, let alone seeking punishment for, the overwhelming majority of leaks.
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We know the intelligence community engages in blatant retaliatory prosecutions and other abuses of its enemies, such as whistleblowers (while typically not even bothering to investigate leakers who make them look good).
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In past leaks, including the recent WikiLeaks CIA files, leakers have tried to render the code inoperable before showing it to the public But the ShadowBrokers files have been released fully operable.
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Also, Trump did some tweets about Russia and the tweets were bad: The FBI is totally unable to stop the national security "leakers" that have permeated our government for a long time.
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He's being undermined by leakers because he doesn't know how government works, is isolated and alienated from the professional bureaucracy, and has been slow in appointing his own people to key spots.
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On Thursday, Nunes's dumb stunt fully fell apart after the New York Times reported that Nunes's two leakers were not, as he claimed, intelligence officials, but people who worked for President Trump.
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The senators asked the BLS about how it transmits the jobs data to the White House, whether it will investigate Trump's comments, and what penalties can apply to leakers of sensitive information.
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The White House is carrying out sweeps to track down personal devices owned by West Wing staffers in an effort some staffers have taken as a crackdown on leakers, CNN reported Tuesday.
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This person did not know if the outcome of the tests would be used to fire staffers, but said it could motivate the leakers to stop leaking out of fear of retribution.
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There's no word yet on when this new Kindle, dubbed the Amazon Oasis, will be available for purchase, but some leakers are saying it could happen as soon as later this week.
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For a quarter-century or more, the rules have stood even as the breadth of national security leaks and numbers of professional leakers such as Julian Assange and Edward Snowden have proliferated.
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NYT reporter James Risen was among the journalists swept up in that Obama record, and he warned in December that Obama was handing Trump the means to target leakers and journalists alike.
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He had spent four years reporting it, amassing dozens of files of what he called explosive material, only to find that his sources had gone jittery amid a government crackdown on leakers.
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According to the newspaper, Mr. Rambo sought to enlist Ms. Watkins in revealing leakers of classified information; it was unclear whether he was working alone or as part of a larger effort.
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The case was also something of a test for the government because Schulte was the only one of several high-profile leakers during the past several years to face a civilian jury.
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As Vox's own Constance Grady recalls, members of the Gossip Girl creative team once formed alliances with fans to try to smoke out set leakers who shared information about upcoming plot points.
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In a second tweet, Scaramucci said that his initial interpretation was "wrong" and that he wanted to put leakers on notice that all senior administration officials were helping to end illegal leaks.
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He took tremendous abuse -- I mean, abuse -- the -- the media and you know, the other side and the bad ones, the leakers, the liars, the dirty cops, they wanted to destroy him.
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And even if we might think that Deep Throat's disclosures were improper violations of proper governmental conduct, what's going on today and what it tells us about today's leakers is far worse.
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"However, when I put out a tweet and I put Reince's name in the tweet, they're all making the assumption that it's him, because journalists know who the leakers are," he continued.
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On the one hand, more Espionage Act prosecutions of leakers of classified information (no matter if done with noble or ill-intent) took place under President Obama than any of his predecessors.
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After the raid went badly — many civilians (including an 8-year old American-born girl) were killed, as was Navy SEAL Ryan Owens — anonymous leakers tried to put the blame on Trump.
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Each time that the Russia investigation took a turn that reflected poorly on him, the President has blamed leakers or Democrats -- or even President Obama, who he said used McCarthyite tactics against him.
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Adding to the intrigue, new accounts have also emerged claiming Watkins was approached last summer by a government official who knew about the relationship and tried to get her help tracking down leakers.
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On the day after his acquittal, Trump gave a bizarre speech from the White House podium in which he excoriated the "liars" and "leakers" who he said were trying to undermine his presidency.
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Trump has grown increasingly angered by the slew of leaked reports that have marked almost every week of his presidency and has chided Sessions for not being more proactive in investigating possible leakers.
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Oh, also with us, number one "New York Times" bestselling author, "Liars, Leakers and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy", host of "Justice", both friends of the show, Judge Jeanine Pirro.
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We did see Trump publicly belittle his own Attorney General Jeff Sessions during the last week or so over Sessions' recusal of himself form the Russian investigation and his soft approach toward leakers.
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Short-lived communications director Anthony Scaramucci sealed his own fate when, in his zest for pursuing leakers, he called up the New Yorker's Ryan Lizza to chat -- on the record -- about his colleagues.
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It is true that these leakers, whistleblowers and probable Deep Throats expose wrongdoing, scandals or actions that hurt the interests of the president and hurt the interests of Republicans in the midterm elections.
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This week, Obama was pilloried by some government leakers and Republicans following comments seeming to dismiss concerns about Clinton's emails, while also suggesting that some classified information is not worthy of rigorous protection.
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The impeachment case against Mr. Trump, built largely on the testimony of officials who actually worked for him, reinforced his view that the government is full of leakers, plotters, whistle-blowers and traitors.
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On Tuesday morning, he tweeted, "I have been asking Director Comey & others, from the beginning of my administration, to find the LEAKERS in the intelligence community," then trailed off with an ominous ellipsis.
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That increased focus on leaks carried over into the Obama administration, which brought about nine cases against leakers, depending on how they are counted — about twice as many as all previous administrations combined.
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Giuliani said he hoped there was no friction with Pompeo, and he denied there was any tension between him and the attorney general, blaming leakers within the White House for spreading that story.
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Given Mr. Scaramucci's tough language about leakers, and his decision to push out one assistant press secretary, his tweet added to a sense of foreboding that has taken hold in the White House.
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In deploring leakers, Mr. Pompeo opened his remarks on Thursday with an anecdote about Phillip Agee, the former C.I.A. officer who turned against the agency and spent years exposing undercover American spies overseas.
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Google has been giving us little nuggets of info about the new Pixel phones for months, because controlling the flow of information is probably preferable to letting leakers spoil everything ahead of time.
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While some staff are urging greater transparency, others have turned to shredding emails and demanding leakers be found and dealt with, the Times reported:But the fallout at the Silicon Valley company has been wide.
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From the resignation of national security adviser Mike Flynn to leaked suggestions that Trump campaign affiliates communicated with Russian intelligence officials, Americans were given a select and partial set of facts provided by leakers.
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"It was evil, it was corrupt, it was dirty cops, it was leakers and liars," Trump said, claiming he had been targeted since the day he announced his candidacy in the summer of 2015.
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However, it is true that some information has been leaked, but both Republicans and Democrats have a long history of leaking information when convenient, as well as ridiculing leakers when the info is inconvenient.
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Inglis said companies, as well as governments, need to embrace continuous monitoring of employees and the use of behavioral analytics to spot potential leakers, and to directly involve human resources departments in detection efforts.
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I do think it&aposs interesting though that Maggie Haberman of the New York Times, one of her tweets yesterday was that sometimes that people complaining most about the leaks are actually the leakers.
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It's worth noting that case makers (and leakers) can get names of upcoming iPhones wrong — in fact, they often rely on unofficial documents and schematics obtained through Apple's supply chain, especially this early on.
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"He said that he and the president, along with members of his team and law enforcement, were working together to "undercut and undercover — or out, if you will — the leakers in the entire country.
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Trump has made identifying "leakers" one of his top priorities as part of an effort to counter Russia stories and the topic of Wednesday's hearing -- FISA surveillance -- plays to Trump's strengths on this issue.
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Every time that he has been faced with a new story connected to the role of Russia in the election or about the allegations of obstruction of justice, President Trump has blasted the leakers.
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In an age when partisanship often obscures the facts and when a President and his media allies feel emboldened to traffic in falsehoods, the leakers could well be seen as performing a public service.
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Cuban's comments followed a rocky hour-and-a-half-long White House news conference, in which Trump repeatedly berated members of the press and went on extended rants about media dishonesty and government leakers.
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I reached out to some of the Trump administration's most prolific leakers — people who have been wonderful sources to me (and, I assume, plenty of other reporters) — to get them to explain the draw.
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But according to former N.S.A. employees who are still in touch with active workers, investigators of the Shadow Brokers thefts are clearly worried that one or more leakers may still be inside the agency.
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" The authors are supporters like Jeanine Pirro, a longtime friend whose book "Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy," has, according to the president, aptly explained "the phony Witch Hunt.
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Obama administration officials were hesitant to wage a high-profile fight with Mr. Assange after being criticized heavily by the news media for obtaining records of journalists through court subpoenas in pursuit of leakers.
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Scaramucci's hostile remarks about punishing leakers come at a time when the new communications chief has escalated his rhetoric on weeding out people in the press shop who are too cozy with the press.
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And in a series of Twitter posts, he assailed the F.B.I. as a dangerously porous agency, condemning unauthorized revelations of classified information from within its ranks and calling for an immediate hunt for leakers.
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It's unclear why McCain walked off the stage, but right before the break she and guest host Ana Navarro got into a disagreement as the group discussed whistleblowers and leakers, including WikiLeaks' Julian Assange.
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"The tweets make it much more difficult for us as we try to build a case against these leakers," said Representative Peter T. King, a New York Republican who sits on the Intelligence Committee.
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Coming from the White House, it also carries an implied threat: Those who are "un-American" — leakers, critics, reporters — may need to be dealt with as "enemies of the people," another worrisome Trump phrase.
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Stone was obviously in contact with two of the key leakers, and his own public statements show that at one point he wanted people to think he had an inside line on WikiLeaks' plans.
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New White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci is vowing a renewed war on leakers, some of whose actions he says "are so treasonous that people would have been hung" for them 1403 years ago.
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As far as the screen goes, we could see a big improvement with Chinese leakers saying 401 pixel density is coming, which would be huge compared to the Air 2's 163 pixels per inch.
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On stopping government leaks Trump has several times expressed his disappointment with Comey and the FBI not being able to stop "national security 'leakers'" – and even accused the former FBI boss of leaking as well.
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But the Trump administration has lumped together this traditional law enforcement function with virulent attacks on "leakers" as part of an autocratic campaign to govern in secrecy -- and that puts all of us at risk.
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Last week, he tweeted that the FBI is "totally unable to stop the national security 'leakers' that have permeated our government for a long time" and called for those leaking classified information to be found.
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Sources told Politico that after seeing or reading reports about the inner workings of his presidency, Trump would demand that leakers be found and had put forward the idea of lie-detector tests numerous times.
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The Obama administration went further than its predecessors in launching criminal prosecutions of national security leakers, but the Trump administration appears to be positively obsessed with both leaks and leaking in a very different way.
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Derek Harvey and Ezra Cohen-Watnick, regularly meeting over coffee or gathering in their offices and joined them in a mission to find alleged leakers and those perceived as resistant to the Trump administration's policies.
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Having already fired one assistant press secretary and warning that he'll "fire everybody" to stop leakers, Scaramucci now appears to be angling to get White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus investigated by the FBI.
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There's the Espionage Act, which is commonly used to prosecute leakers, and bans the conveyance of information meant to interfere with the operation of the US armed forces or promote the success of America's enemies.
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Two people close to the Vision Fund told CNBC that they have reason to believe that partners and other employees were being watched or monitored because Misra cracked down to find internal leakers of information.
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He could have stated his response more accurately, but it was clearly not.... Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes (where are E-mails & DNC server) & Intel leakers!
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"find the leakers within the FBI itself....FIND NOW," reads a February 20183, 2017 tweet that trails off without an ending, as though some perilous event has cut him off, upping the sense of urgency.
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Editorial Observer Near the top of President Trump's enemies list, along with the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Nordstrom, are the leakers who fuel his "running war" with the media.
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Leakers are concerned with Bellman's operating instructions and Pozen's mixed-strategy equilibrium, because they are interested in using and exploiting secrecy: they believe that secrecy, by its preservation and strategic violation, serves an essential purpose.
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In a recent interview, Assange denied he was soft on Russia and argued would-be leakers of Russian secrets had better outlets than WikiLeaks to go to, in part because no one at WikiLeaks speaks Russian.
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Officials describe an increasingly conspiracy-minded president: "When he was super frustrated about the leaks, he would rail about the 'snakes' in the White House," said a source who has discussed administration leakers with the president.
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And largely because of President Barack Obama's own crackdown on leakers, as well as an increase in what information is considered classified since the 9/11 attacks, Trump's administration has precedent to do something about it.
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But that hasn't stopped leakers and insiders from dropping clues about some of the new features Apple is allegedly working on, which so far, seem to consist of features that the iPhone's biggest competitors already have.
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Much to the dismay of his fellow Republicans, who have rallied around Sessions, Trump has lambasted the former Alabama senator on Twitter, calling him "beleaguered" and "very weak" for not going after Hillary Clinton and leakers.
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Scaramucci's departure came after President Trump found his comments to the New Yorker, in which he railed about other members of the administration with vulgar language and said he wanted to kill leakers, "inappropriate," she added.
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White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci told a reporter he wants to kill government leakers, called White House chief strategist Steve Bannon a cocksucker, and suggested he'd fire all of the assistants to the president. Seriously.
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Such cases are relatively rare, and stories like the Post expose that doomed Flynn rely on multiple sources; if the Trump administration does go after leakers aggressively, there could wind up being more than one arrest.
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We still haven't (officially) seen the Galaxy S27 or the yet-to-be-christened iPhone 83, but one of the most trusted leakers in the rumor mill is already confident enough to name Apple the favorite.
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The administration has been criticized by transparency groups for its record on government leakers, and the fact that President Obama's Justice Department has pursued more charges under the Espionage Act than all of his predecessors combined.
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West Wing aides said they were carrying out a hunt for leakers and taking other steps to stop unauthorized disclosures, such as reducing the size of communications staff meetings and even pushing people off the team.
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During the Trump administration, the government has filed several criminal cases against leakers, including former intelligence analyst Reality Winner who divulged a report about Russian interference in the 2016 election also to the Intercept news website.
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The Department of Justice under Obama took phone records from Associated Press reporters and editors, named a Fox News reporter an unindicted "co-conspirator" in a leak case, and prosecuted multiple cases involving whistleblowers and leakers.
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The Daily Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: Via Apple Podcasts | Via RadioPublic | Via Stitcher For a year and a half, President Trump has threatened to crack down on leaks and leakers.
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WASHINGTON — For decades, leakers of confidential information to the press were a genus that included many species: the government worker infuriated by wrongdoing, the ideologue pushing a particular line, the politico out to savage an opponent.
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It also emerged that a Border Patrol agent, Jeffrey Rambo, had obtained confidential travel records of both Ms. Watkins and Mr. Wolfe and in June 2017 had sought to recruit her as an informant against leakers.
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The Trump administration's renewed pursuit of leakers has alarmed First Amendment advocates, who say the investigations can have a chilling effect on government employees who may choose to stay silent rather than alert journalists to wrongdoing.
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In the weeks since, Google has made it publicly known that it's punishing alleged leakers and has cut down on the regularity and focus of its TGIF meetings, once a hallmark of the company's open culture.
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At one point in the hearing, Mr. Comey noted that leaks of sensitive government information have bedeviled the nation's leaders since George Washington's time, though he conceded that leakers have been "unusually active" in recent months.
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Once again, the Democrats, their media mouthpieces and a cabal of leakers are ginning up a fake story with no regard to the monumental damage they're causing to our public institutions and to trust in government.
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The administration has railed against leaks and leakers since its earliest days and the personal device ban appears to a belated, and likely doomed, effort to control the messaging that spills out of a deeply chaotic presidency.
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It didn't matter that the White House couldn't defend its trans military ban because they had to instead explain why the White House communications director thought it was okay to call for the murder of all leakers.
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In some ways, Mr Assange was doing no more than following in the footsteps of such illustrious news organisations, which had long given a platform to anti-government leakers–and enjoyed First Amendment protections while doing so.
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"What I want to do is I want to fucking kill all the leakers and I want to get the president's agenda on track so we can succeed for the American people," Scaramucci told Lizza on Wednesday.
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"What I want to do is I want to fucking kill all the leakers and I want to get the president's agenda on track so we can succeed for the American people," Scaramucci told the New Yorker.
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" Scaramucci didn't elaborate, but said the President has a very good idea of the "leakers" are in the White House and of those people around him who are "undermining his agenda that are serving their own interests.
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" Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats to leakers: "To anyone out there listening...we will find you...we will prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law, and you will not be happy with the result.
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"We are taking a stand," said Sessions, who in recent weeks has been publicly criticized by Trump for his performance in the job, including for what Trump called his weakness on the issue of going after leakers.
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It's part of the left's war on the right MORE revised Justice Department rules in 2013, imposing new limits on subpoenaing journalists' notes and other information that could help law enforcement officials identify leakers and anonymous sources.
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And as BuzzFeed News reported in May, management has also increased efforts to crack down on internal leakers, threatening to fire workers for so much as searching for internal information on projects that aren't in their purview.
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Her decision to plead guilty to one felony count allows the government both to avoid a complex trial that had been scheduled for October and to notch a victory in the Trump administration's aggressive pursuit of leakers.
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"It was evil, it was corrupt, it was dirty cops, it was leakers and liars, and this should never, ever happen to another president, ever," Trump said Thursday of the impeachment inquiry, in his hour-plus speech.
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"What I want to do is I want to f------ kill all the leakers and I want to get the President's agenda on track so we can succeed for the American people," Scaramucci said in the interview.
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Despite these initiatives, authorities have arrested several high-profile leakers in the last two years, including Harold Martin III, another NSA contractor, who agreed to plead guilty earlier this year to stealing years' worth of classified materials.
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Just ask Navy engineer Bryan Nishimura, who in July 2015 was sentenced to two years of probation and a $7,500 fine for doing far less than Hillary Clinton, her staff, or the leakers at the FBI have done.
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And as many have warned, setting this kind of precedent to vigorously go after leakers often becomes a freedom of press problem, not only limiting more information available to the public but also resulting in investigations of journalists.
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" Uncover and fire the leakers: "There's too many different interests and the problem with this is I've never seen a White House as leaky as this one...there could be 15 to 20 sources on a particular subject.
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" Now, that is the hugest accomplishment for a person that I love, and admire, and she fills in on the show and she&aposs got her own show, "Liars, Leakers, Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy.
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Trump, who has called leaks "criminal action, a criminal act," no longer expresses the kind of sympathy for leakers that he did during the campaign, when he praised WikiLeaks for its publication of emails relating to Hillary Clinton.
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If he pursues a deeper crackdown on leakers than done by President Obama and Bush, and takes no action to fix the whistleblower system, he's only asking for more pain down the road, with no end in sight.
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Trump's professed desire to wield the Justice Department as a political weapon and Attorney General Jeff Sessions's zeal in hunting down leakers would make it especially dangerous for him or any of his subordinates to distribute classified information.
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Despite active efforts to flush out administration leakers -- including machines used to detect unauthorized cell phones in the West Wing -- President Donald Trump and his senior aides haven't yet been able to stem the flow of damaging information.
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Over the past weeks, a furor over "illegal leaks" has grown, reaching a new level of uproar when White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci declared that 150 years ago, leakers would have "been hung" for their "treasonous" actions.
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While only a few leakers have been successfully prosecuted under the Espionage Act — the first such conviction came in 1985 — most of those convicted have received sentences of between about one year and three and a half years.
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During a meeting in Washington, he told Ms. Watkins that he was aware of her personal relationship with Mr. Wolfe and asked if she would assist him in ferreting out government leakers and the journalists they worked with.
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In recent years, technology has helped such leakers operate on a mass scale: Chelsea Manning and the WikiLeaks diplomatic cables, Edward Snowden and the stolen National Security Agency archive, and the still-anonymous source of the Panama Papers.
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But the prosecution of Ms. Winner may send a deterrent message to the huge, scattered work force of employees and contractors of the N.S.A., showing that the authorities have sophisticated ways to track down leakers in certain circumstances.
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But on the bright side for Trump — which is a historically low bar — there were these things: Comey admitted he was a leaker, and Trump is obsessed with catching leakers even though he's a world-class leaker himself.
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Barack Obama ran for president in part against what he considered the excesses of counterterrorism programs under George W. Bush, as disclosed by leaks — but Mr. Obama's administration then prosecuted far more leakers than all previous presidents combined.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday assailed the F.B.I. as a dangerously porous agency, charging that leaks of classified information from within its ranks were putting the country at risk — and calling for an immediate hunt for the leakers.
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The Trump administration may have leaks (and leakers) in its cross-hairs, but the fact is that leaked documents continue to fill the information void left by an administration as uncommitted to transparency as any in living memory.
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He told VICE News that Trump's remarks Thursday at a New York fundraiser, where he appeared to advocate executing leakers to a laughing audience, suggests his administration could similarly violate the law intended to protect intelligence community whistleblowers.
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He has even used the phrase on Mr. Schiff in the past: "Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington," the president tweeted this year.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former FBI Director James Comey in memos recounting conversations with U.S. President Donald Trump last year said Trump repeatedly raised concern over salacious allegations in an intelligence dossier, the need for loyalty and ferreting out leakers.
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The consensus among the reporters and leakers who follow Apple is that the iPhone 7 will only bring minor upgrades compared to last year's model, while the iPhone that comes in 2017 will be a far more revolutionary upgrade.
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Nichols has described his client as a veteran, not a traitor, and -- citing a statement from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein saying leakers of classified information must be held accountable -- accused the government of pursuing Winner for political reasons.
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It includes submissions from academics and experts around the world who trace inside threats ranging from Indira Gandhi's assassination at the hands of her guards to the Fort Hood massacre to famous leakers like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden.
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Leakers were pursued under his tenure as FBI director, and many of those investigated may be rather perturbed by the image of someone who went from chief law enforcer to high-profile leaker when it was to his advantage.
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The comments on Bannon were part of a tirade by Scaramucci against White House leakers, specifically White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, who Scaramucci accused of leaking information about a dinner and his financial documents to the press.
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Fake News 'Little' Adam Schiff and 'Little Adam Schitt' Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington, right up there with Comey, Warner, Brennan and Clapper!
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After the dinner, dozens lined up to get a copy of Ms. Pirro's new book, "Liars, Leakers and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy" (which could be purchased for $30 at the event) signed by the author.
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Trump, too, sees powerful forces arrayed against him: leakers whispering maledictions into the listening ears of journalists, protesters funded by his enemies and a federal intelligence apparatus bent on using his campaign's supposed Russian connections to undermine his presidency.
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"That the sentence that she received was very disproportionate relative to what other leakers had received and that she had served a significant amount of time, that it made sense to commute and not pardon her sentence," Obama added.
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After one of Mr. Trump's advisers said in January that he had no intention of ever releasing his returns, WikiLeaks accused him of breaching a campaign promise and called for leakers to send the filings its way for publication.
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It is certainly possible that several of their contacts with real or purported leakers and hackers listed above went nowhere, but it's a bit harder to believe that all six of those separate contacts resulted in nothing of consequence.
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While the Obama administration prosecuted more leakers of classified information than all previous administrations combined, there was one target they could never quite figure out how to go after without getting ensnared in the First Amendment rights of journalists.
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In the meantime, I do want to thank Whoopi and the ladies of the "The View" for helping to make my book, "Liars, Leakers and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy" number one on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
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And remember, if you like my open, you&aposre going to love my book "Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case against the Anti- Trump Conspiracy," it is out next month, but you can preorder on Amazon and Barnes & Noble now.
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Finally, if you like my opens, you&aposre going to love my new book, "Liars, Leakers and Liberals: The Case against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy," it comes out in July, but you can preorder it now on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
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President Donald Trump's call to action has been heard: Attorney General Jeff Sessions is "taking a stand" against leakers and "reviewing" policies against subpoenaing reporters to force them to reveal their sources or potentially face jail time, he announced Friday.
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Some in the White House tell Fox News that they believe administration bigwigs like Conway are in fact some of the worst leakers, leading junior staffers in the communications department to feel the warnings of an impending purge are unfair.
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What I also want to say is that we are working together, the President and myself and other members of his team and law enforcement to undercut and undercover -- or out, if you will -- the leakers in the entire country.
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According to the newly unsealed indictment, Assange faces 17 new charges — including publishing classified information — under the Espionage Act, a law typically reserved for spies working against the U.S. or whistleblowers and leakers who worked for the U.S. intelligence community. 2.
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According to the newly unsealed indictment, Assange faces 17 new charges — including publishing classified information — under the Espionage Act, a law typically reserved for spies working against the U.S. or whistleblowers and leakers who worked for the U.S. intelligence community.
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In the February 14 meeting in the Oval Office, Trump expressed frustration about news stories detailing his private conversations with the leaders of Mexico and Australia the previous month, saying Comey needed to go after the leakers, the source said.
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From Nixon to Obama, past presidents have found it politically expedient to crack down on leakers as a way of shoring up executive authority—while also, in the Obama administration's case, selectively leaking information that reflects favorably on the president.
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The New York Times reported earlier in the week that some staff members have turned to encrypted communications to talk with their colleagues after hearing that Trump's top advisers are considering an "insider threat" surveillance program to root out leakers. Sen.
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"By advocating for administrative action in appropriate cases, the DNI hopes that more leakers will be sanctioned, and others similarly situated will be deterred," general counsel Robert Litt told the Senate panel in February 85033, describing the May 2011 memorandum.
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Yet the administration has also been accused of having a paltry record on compliance with the Freedom of Information Act, and more government leakers have been accused of crimes under the 1917 Espionage Act than during all other presidents combined.
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Journalists, on the other hand, are certain to be alarmed by any proposed change, just as they were when the Obama administration escalated its prosecution of leakers and targeted journalists such as James Rosen for scrutiny because of what they reported.
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"Despite active efforts to flush out administration leakers — including machines used to detect unauthorized cell phones in the West Wing — ... Trump and his senior aides haven't yet been able to stem the flow of damaging information," CNN's Kaitlan Collins writes.
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When taken together with his previous bashing of the military, and punitive actions toward leakers and dissenters on his own staff, Trump's blame shifting will likely make military leaders less trusting of their boss, and possibly more risk-averse as well.
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The family of Reality Winner, the government contractor charged with leaking a top-secret NSA report to online news outlet The Intercept, fears their daughter will receive a harsher sentence as the Trump administration looks to "make an example" of leakers.
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New York (CNN)Just months into his presidency, a small circle of senior White House advisers met with Donald Trump about a carefully curated list containing the names of dozens of perceived political opponents, particularly leakers, working inside the government.
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Such indictments are also regularly used by Mr. Trump's allies to advance rhetoric about a "deep state" of government leakers seeking to undermine his presidency; reporters say their sources are often dedicated public servants concerned about malfeasance or abuse of power.
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Instead of the First Amendment, the British have the Official Secrets Act, which allows the government to ban in advance the publication of government secrets and prescribes punishments not just for leakers, but also for the journalists who publish the information.
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"What I want to do is I want to f------ kill all the leakers, and I want to get the President's agenda on track so we can succeed for the American people," Scaramucci told The New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza.
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Trump the president, meanwhile, has enthusiastically supported a crackdown on leakers in the intelligence community, although it is unclear whether he would support a prosecution of WikiLeaks, to which he expressed public gratitude for releasing the Democratic emails in 2016.
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But, she said, Bannon's significance at the White House and near immediate transition from the White House to a role in breaking news from an administration that has so recently declared war on leakers might combine to present unique problems.
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"What I want to do is I want to f---ing kill all the leakers, and I want to get the president's agenda on track so we can succeed for the American people," Scaramucci told New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza.
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"He's made very clear that everybody gets amnesty and that he's looking at leakers and he wants to make sure everybody is at their best and highest use as part of the comms team," Conway said on the West Wing driveway.
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Anthony Scaramucci, President Trump's incoming White House communications director, scaled back his earlier pledge of purging his press shop in order to weed out possible leakers, saying late Tuesday that he does not plan to aggressively fire people — for now.
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For months, reports have claimed wireless charging would be coming to not just the iPhone 8, but also the revamped version of the 4.7- and 5.5-inch iPhones (tentatively referred to by leakers and media as the "7S" and "7S Plus").
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Prior to joining Pluribus International, Winner served six years in the military including work as a linguist for the U.S. Air Force, her mother Billie Winner told CNN, adding she'd never expressed admiration for past leakers, such as Edward Snowden.
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So while President Trump has talked a big game about targeting the leakers, many of whom, the White House charges, are disgruntled Obama administration holdovers, the Winner arrest seems to be in spirit with the Obama-era approach to the problem.
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What I also want to say is that we are working together, the president and myself and other members of his team and law enforcement, to undercut and undercover — or out, if you will — the leakers in the entire country.
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"The leakers claimed the documents had been provided to them by a paid whistleblower embedded in a Washington, DC, lobbyist group, though it's clear from even a cursory examination that they were printed out from Al Otaiba's Hotmail account," reported the Daily Beast.
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Screenshot: Gizmodo So, while Trump is embroiled in controversy over leaking classified intelligence to the Russian government, his bodyguard leaked the phone number of the Secretary of Defense, and Trump is still ranting on Twitter about how the FBI can't find leakers.
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" Soon after Trump defended his handling of the Russia meeting, he then reiterated his longstanding call to find leakers in the intelligence community, saying he had called on former FBI Director James Comey and others to investigate "from the beginning of my administration.
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The leakers spilled their secrets to The Guardian, giving us a better understanding about Brin's mission and exactly what he wants to do with his own personal sky yacht, which is ... go on lavish family vacations that double as humanitarian aid missions.
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And even a full month after the 300MB of hacking tools stolen from the NSA's Tailored Access operations team, also dubbed as Equation Group, we might still be far away from knowing the extent of the damage done by the mysterious leakers.
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But firing Sessions, or forcing him to resign, would create a political shitstorm—one the White House can't really afford right now—so they're closing in on a kind of detente: Sessions can keep his job if he'll throw some leakers in jail.
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Critics of the Obama administration have claimed that it has vigorously pursued lower-level officials and government leakers, such as Edward Snowden, while giving a minor slap on the wrists to prominent officials such as Clinton and former CIA Director David Petraeus.
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Rounding out this triumvirate is EPA Secretary Scott Pruitt, who spent nearly $60,000 in taxpayer money on private air travel and who reportedly also spent $25,000 building a soundproof booth so he could talk to people without being overheard by potential leakers.
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On Friday, Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE announced a governmentwide crackdown on leakers.
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Because today is opposite day or a day to look strong on Russia but also those pesky "leakers" (except the ones who do you favors!) or a good day to cover your ass, or really we're not sure why, it's just what happened.
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Given Trump's troubled relationship with the intelligence community, which he has publicly denigrated and undermined, numerous former administration officials said they are concerned that Grenell was appointed to "clean house" and purge the government of those deemed to be leakers or whistleblowers.
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" Government leakers, who don't have advocacy groups or their employers to stand up for them the way journalists do, are the real — and really vulnerable — targets of an administration that "is stacked, no surprise, with a murderers' row of First Amendment antagonists.
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He vowed to "kill all the leakers," especially Mr. Priebus, accusing Mr. Priebus of — horrors — leaking the fact that Mr. Trump and the first lady had dinner with the former Fox News boss Bill Shine and Sean Hannity, Fox talker and Trump sycophant.
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"Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington, right up there with Comey, Warner, Brennan and Clapper!" tweeted Trump, referring to the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.
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While Scaramucci has walked back that earlier threat to fire everyone in the White House press shop in order to root out possible leakers, he escalated his feud with chief of staff Reince Priebus on Thursday, insinuating publicly that he is a leaker.
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That's the defense the president himself went with in a series of tweets on Tuesday morning: I have been asking Director Comey & others, from the beginning of my administration, to find the LEAKERS in the intelligence community..... ...to terrorism and airline flight safety.
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During an appearance on Fox News' "Hannity," Scaramucci blasted the "swamp" and "cesspool" of Washington for driving leaks in the West Wing, while praising beleaguered Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his efforts to crack down on would-be leakers at the Justice Department.
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During a question and answer session at a company-wide meeting, a senior engineer took the microphone to shout "F*** you leakers" at his fellow colleagues.... [Poulson] said employees' concerns about Dragonfly have largely been ignored by management, who are focused on preventing leaks.
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Alleged whistleblower arrested for leaking classified information Alleged whistleblower arrested for leaking classified information The FBI made good on President Donald Trump's repeated promise to "find the leakers" Monday, arresting and charging 25-year-old Reality Leigh Winner with leaking classified documents to the media.
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In both cases, the public debate turned to a focus on the leaks investigation and the tactics used to crack down on leakers instead of the issue at hand: The reported contacts and possible collusion between officials close to the sitting President and Russian officials.
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The report suggests that confidential economic data could also be protected under espionage laws ("as far as it relate to national security"), and that leakers should not be able to make the legal claim, if prosecuted, that disclosing government secrets is in the public interest.
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Trump has called leakers "traitors and cowards" and in September suggested that officials who leaked to the whistleblower are "close to a spy," and that in "the old days" spies were treated differently, apparently alluding to charges of treason that carried the death penalty.
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But it shouldn't eclipse the bigger picture: that while low-level leakers like Winner become the subjects of large-scale public prosecutions, our own President has a nasty habit of spewing highly classified and sensitive information to boost his own ego and impress his audience.
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The question is whether the stories coming to light now are the most damning of the bunch, or leakers are starting in reverse and building toward a kind of crescendo that could finally lead to the ousting of CEO and co-founder Travis Kalanick .
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Classified information is being given to media that could have a devastating effect on U.S. FIND NOW [0736 EST] -The FBI is totally unable to stop the national security "leakers" that have permeated our government for a long.... (here) [0812 EST] -- Source link: (bit.
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And nobody needs to feel sorry for me," she continued, later thanking "Whoopi and the ladies [of The View] for helping to make my book Liars, Leakers and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy No. 1 on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
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Trump's frontal assault on the former FBI director could also spur sources in or close to the bureau to leak damaging information on the president and his associates — a move that would entail potential legal peril for the leakers but which could embarrass Trump nonetheless.
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"Perhaps if the leakers trying to undermine him were as talented and smart as Raj, they would be here fighting for the American people every day, rather than trying desperately to remain relevant by spreading information that Raj himself shared many months ago," Hicks said.
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The White House felt it was under attack by anonymous leaks coming out of federal agencies in the early days of the administration, leading Trump's allies to launch public attacks against the "deep state" leakers they described as lifelong bureaucrats and Obama administration holdovers.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump escalated his attacks on the intelligence community on Thursday, promising to catch the "low-life leakers" who have supplied the "fake news media" with information on his administration's ties to Russia, information that he dismissed as a political excuse for Democratic losses.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump turned the power of the White House against the news media on Friday, escalating his attacks on journalists as "the enemy of the people" and berating members of his own F.B.I. as "leakers" who he said were putting the nation at risk.
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Lacing his remarks with profanities and vulgar references, Mr. Scaramucci had warned his colleagues he would fire them, threatened to kill leakers in the White House and attacked the president's chief of staff, Reince Priebus (since departed), and the chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon.
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Just last week, 250 employees at Facebook — a company whose CEO last year made it his public mission to find and fire leakers — signed a letter shared with the New York Times that openly criticized how the company allows politicians to run false ads.
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Since assuming office, Trump has tweeted some variant of the phrase "WITCH HUNT!" more than 120 times in response to the Mueller investigation and critics including the "Fake News," congressional Democrats, Hillary Clinton, various intelligence agencies, former President Obama, and "leakers" within the administration itself.
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Classified information is being given to media that could have a devastating effect on U.S. FIND NOW [0736 EST] -The FBI is totally unable to stop the national security "leakers" that have permeated our government for a long.... (here) [0812 EST] -- Source link: (bit.
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As someone who has served our country in uniform, I was alarmed by the idea of a commander in chief who, despite railing against mutinous leakers, possesses no sense of prudence in his own handling of America's secrets — even when in the company of our geopolitical adversaries.
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To determine when the next insider attack will occur, we likely need to look to the discipline of behavioral science, which is addressing this problem by attempting to identify people who might be leakers, rather than trying to restrict access to data or detect its duplication.
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Sure, not all of them will pan out, but plenty have come from leakers with established track records, and enough of the details line up so as to paint a wholly believable portrait of the phone we'll finally get an official look at early next month.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 18 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that former intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning had served a tough prison term and his decision to commute her 35-year sentence to about seven years served would not signal leniency toward leakers of U.S. government secrets.
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Another former NSA source, who was contacted independently and spoke on condition of anonymity, said that "it's plausible" that the leakers are actually a disgruntled insider, claiming that it's easier to walk out of the NSA with a USB drive or a CD than hack its servers.
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The leaks began as soon as Trump took up residency in the White House, and they have been nothing short of astonishing—both for the hilarious indifference leakers have shown to the administration's reputation and the degree to which they reflected infighting at its highest levels.
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Brin, on the other hand, made an awkward joke about confidentiality, which sounded to some as if he were blaming the leakers, and seemed irked by the fact that the same question came up over and over again when the executives had nothing new to say.
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Mr. McGahn had warned Mr. Trump repeatedly that it would be difficult to bind federal employees to such an agreement, but the president pushed back, believing that its existence could act as a deterrent to would-be leakers, a person with direct knowledge of the discussions said.
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Anonymous leakers on Reddit, for example, forecast that Daenerys Targaryen would kill Lord Varys, and one claiming to have had a relative working on the show accurately predicted that Arya would leap toward the Night King and slay him just as he was about to kill Bran.
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In just the past couple of weeks, the president has reiterated his description of some news outlets as "enemies of the American people," while taking his shots at Paris, Sweden, Hill Democrats, the F.B.I., government leakers, President Barack Obama and his own communications staff, among other targets.
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Ryan's comment comes just hours after Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE announced a governmentwide crackdown on leakers.
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Donald Trump has complained bitterly about leaks coming out of his White House over the past year, but Michael Wolff's new bombshell of a book says some of the most prolific leakers in the early Trump administration were none other than the president's closest advisers — and Trump himself.
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Something else to keep in mind is that none of these sources are claimed to have been present at the dinner, and this administration is well known to be populated with leakers who plant stories about their rivals as they jockey to be the one with Trump's attention.
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One fascinating element of Apple's anti-leak strategy is that it rarely goes after the leakers using legal methods, both because its difficult to do so in a foreign country and because doing so would mean media reports on or otherwise unwanted attention paid to the unreleased products.
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My new book "Liars, Leakers & Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy" is the number one "New York Times" bestseller and you can get your copy on Amazon and Barnes & Noble and it answers your questions and everything I&aposve been talking about is in the book.
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Joining us now with reaction, I&aposm so happy she is with us on set, Judge Jeanine Pirro, host of "Justice" right here on FNC and author of the huge best seller "Liars, Leakers And Liberals: The Case Against The Anti-Trump Conspiracy," along with immigration attorney Francisco Hernandez.
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So far, the leaker or leakers have published a collection of the hackers' tools, evidence of their intrusion points for 66 victim organizations across the world, the IP addresses of servers used by Iranian intelligence, and even the identities and photographs of alleged hackers working with the OilRig group.
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If we engage in Times-style gilding of every lily the leakers throw our way, and in doing so build up a fever of expectations for a bombshell reveal, but there turns out to be no conspiracy—Trump will be pre-inoculated against all criticism for the foreseeable future.
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These leakers — whether they are people who are angling to harm a White House adversary and thereby increase their positions on this totem of travesties, or actual moles animated by a sense of civic morality — have exposed this administration as a marauding band of incompetent, unprincipled, self-mutilating posers.
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READ: The 3 biggest takeaways from the whistleblower complaint against Trump "Once again, the Democrats, their media mouthpieces, and a cabal of leakers are ginning up a fake story with no regard to the monumental damage they're causing to our public institutions and our trust in government," Nunes said.
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When things get involved with North Korea and all the problems we have there, in the Middle East, I mean, that information cannot be leaked out, and it will be by this, this same, and these people were here in the Obama years, because he had plenty of leakers also.
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"Asked if putting Assange behind bars was a "priority" at a press conference on Thursday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke generally about prosecuting leakers, telling reporters, "We've already begun to step up our efforts and whenever a case can be made, we will seek to put some people in jail.
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As journalism observers and researchers like me study how leaks, prosecutions and anti-media rhetoric impact everything from media trust to the free flow of information, we may be entering a post-Pentagon Papers era that shifts the power back to political elites, who seem more emboldened to go after leakers.
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That is less the fault of leakers or an undisciplined White House staff than unsquareable policy circles (Republicans who believe the government should get out of the health-care business will never agree with those who view health care as a right) and an increasingly poisonous relationship with congressional Republicans.
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But if there were anything damning that investigators had found during the course of an investigation that dates back at least to last summer, someone in the Justice Department would almost certainly have leaked it by now — the way that leakers have disclosed anything else that makes Trump look bad.
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President Trump's morning tweets on the leaks pouring out of the national intelligence organizations were pretty aggressive: The precedent: The George W. Bush presidency started the trend of targeting leakers, and former president Obama set a record for using the Espionage Act to prosecute whistleblowers who leaked to the press.
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Mr. Schiff, who has traded bitter Twitter messages with the president after Mr. Trump called him one of "the biggest liars and leakers" in Washington, warned this week that Mr. Trump might call for "political edits" intended to erase embarrassing parts of the memo, not information related to national security.
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Apparently incensed that the magazine's Ryan Lizza reported leaked information that President Donald Trump planned to dine with some Fox News personalities, Scaramucci threatened "to fucking kill all the leakers" and called then-White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus "a fucking paranoid schizophrenic" while on the phone with Lizza.
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Schiff offers bill to make domestic terrorism a federal crime New intel chief inherits host of challenges MORE (D-Calif.) Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington, right up there with Comey, Warner, Brennan and Clapper!
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"When I put out a tweet and I put Reince's name in a tweet, they all make the assumption that it's him because journalists know who the leakers are," Scaramucci said, referencing a tweet in which he tagged Priebus after threatening to have federal investigators become involved over a leak.
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"He knows, and he has said publicly and privately who the leakers and the liars are and have been, and is very happy that there is a lot less leaking in the White House now," she told Fox News's Abby Huntsman, whose father is U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman.
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Perhaps to avoid that outcome, he made sure to remind Trump — who was almost certainly watching the interview on one of the TVs he had installed in the White House to feed his cable news addiction — of their shared beliefs on cracking down on immigration, transnational gangs, and prosecuting leakers.
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With continued revelations that administration officials were dishonest about their contacts with the Russians and with President Trump's habit to tweet statements more damaging to his own case than anything leakers have provided, it is hard for Congress or the Department of Justice to simply bring this matter to a quick close.
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" Nou suggests that would-be leakers familiarize themselves with an agency called the Office of Special Counsel, a council founded to protect federal employees from top-down retaliation for whistleblowing and other protected activities and just so happens to be "currently headed by an Obama-appointee with a strong reputation for independence.
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Spicer and Priebus were ushered out the door during his short reign, and on the eve of the dramatic healthcare vote in the Senate, The New Yorker published his profane rant to a reporter in which he warned of purging leakers and took pointed aim at Priebus and White House strategist Stephen Bannon.
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House Senate Intell committees must open investigations of illegal leaks from intell community,deliberate effort to undermine President Trump himself has railed against leakers in recent days after a series of damaging leaks led to the ousting of his national security adviser and questions about his team's actions during last year's campaign.
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A statement released by the venue on Louis C.K.'s behalf threatened would-be leakers of material from the set with legal penalties, asserting that its contents "may not be copied, translated, transmitted, displayed, distributed, or reproduced verbatim" in "any form, media, or technology now known or later developed" without written consent.
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Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE has previously stated that rooting out and prosecuting leakers would be a priority for his Justice Department.
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In a remarkable set of Tuesday morning tweets, Trump trashed Jeff Sessions as taking "a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes" and "intel leakers," outright complaining that the Justice Department wasn't doing enough to investigate his political opponents in a manner that shows a shocking lack of respect for the rule of law.
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On Monday, Trump wrote online that 'the so-called leaks coming out of the White House are a massive over exaggeration put out by the Fake News Media in order to make us look as bad as possible' but added that 'leakers are traitors and cowards, and we will find out who they are!
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"I do want to thank Whoopi and the ladies of 'The View' for helping to make my book 'Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy' hit No. 85033 on Amazon and Barnes & Noble," Pirro, host of "Justice with Judge Jeanine," which airs weekends on Fox News, said on Saturday night.
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Devin Nunes, another of Trump's top allies in Congress, rang alarm bells that "a cabal of leakers are ginning up a fake story with no regard to the monumental damage they're causing to our public institutions and trust in government" as acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire testified before the House Intelligence Committee.
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New York Times journalist Judith Miller was jailed for 85 days by the George W. Bush administration for refusing to cooperate with a Department of Justice investigation into CIA leakers, and her colleague, James Risen, fought a seven year legal battle with the Bush and Obama administrations to avoid having to disclose a source.
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It typically means an open and egalitarian internal ethos that stops at the sign-in tablets by the reception desk (at Uber, Facebook, BuzzFeed, and most other tech companies) that ask visitors to sign NDAs; at CEOs' demands for plumbing expeditions after minor leaks; at federal investigations of "insider threats"; and at dire warnings aimed at potential leakers.
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In an interview with CNN's "New Day" on Thursday morning, Scaramucci compared himself and chief of staff Reince Priebus to the biblical brothers Cain and Abel, talked about what used to happen to leakers, invoked the importance of being Italian and mentioned (and mentioned) (and mentioned) his Wednesday night dinner with President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump.
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I have been asking Director Comey & others, from the beginning of my administration, to find the LEAKERS in the intelligence community..... Trump's comments appeared to acknowledge reports Monday that he disclosed highly classified intelligence information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador during an Oval Office meeting last week — contradicting carefully worded denials issued by his own White House.
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Pompeo, though he formerly tweeted his appreciation of WikiLeaks and the role it played in publishing Democratic National Committee emails during the election, told an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in 2017 that the US can no longer give Assange a platform to speak freely and openly using information he's provided by leakers.
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Late in the president's first term, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper issued a directive telling federal agencies to "pursue administrative investigations and sanctions against identified leakers wherever appropriate," rather than going through the potentially perilous and drawn-out process of a court proceeding, Clapper's top lawyer said in a secret statement before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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Whether you're a consumer, a techie or a D.C. lifer, we're here to give you... THE BIG STORY TRUMP: LEAKERS WILL 'PAY A BIG PRICE': President Trump on Thursday pledged to punish people who leaked damaging information about the inner workings of the White House, including about former national security adviser Michael Flynn's conversations with Russia.
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"Anything that would try to portray what the leakers, or what the government officials try to do as a 'Deep State' is an attempt to delegitimize whistleblowers or people who believe that what the government is doing right is against the Constitution," Omer Taspinar, a professor at the National War College who studies Turkey, told the Atlantic's David Graham.
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Amy Fiscus, The Times's national security editor, will moderate a discussion about what it takes to confirm a scoop, the story behind The Times's anonymous tip line, how journalists use their sources in an age when leakers are increasingly under public scrutiny, and what it's like for a C.I.A. spokesperson to handle tough questions and keep information classified.
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Sessions' eight-minute broadside against leaks and his stern warning to leakers seemed to be aimed at trying to repair his badly frayed relationship with Trump, who has expressed regret for selecting Sessions and who has specifically complained that he was doing too little to fight the tidal wave of leaks that have swamped the Trump White House.
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" Now I want you to know, if you have been watching the news but you want the real truth, you want to know what&aposs been going on in Congress, you want to know what they have been doing in the FBI and the DOJ -- they told me I have another 10 seconds, buy my book "Liars, Leakers and Liberals.
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Less than a week into his job, Mr Scaramucci gave a profanity-heavy interview to a reporter at the New Yorker in which he accused Mr Priebus of leaking a publicly available document, threatened to "fucking kill all the leakers", and bragged that unlike Steve Bannon, Mr Trump's nationalist chief strategist, he was "not trying to suck my own cock".
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"It has been my view given that she went to trial, that due process was carried out, that she took responsibility for her crime, that the sentence that she received was very disproportionate relative to what other leakers had received and that she had served a significant amount of time, that it made sense to commute and not pardon her sentence," Obama said.
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Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE is considering giving lie detector tests to the entire staff of the National Security Council (NSC) in an effort to weed out leakers, Axios reported on Sunday.
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Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE announced in August a governmentwide crackdown on leakers, which included a review of the DOJ's policies on subpoenas for media outlets that publish sensitive information.
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It has been my view that given she went to trial; that due process was carried out; that she took responsibility for her crime; that the sentence that she received was very disproportional — disproportionate relative to what other leakers had received; and that she had served a significant amount of time, that it made sense to commute and not pardon her sentence.
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Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE on Friday announced a government-wide crackdown on leakers, which will include a review of the Justice Department's policies on subpoenas for media outlets that publish sensitive information.
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It was soon clear that Mr. Scaramucci would not be a fixture of the administration, but a transitory figure who created an opportunity for Mr. Trump, with his daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner, to undertake the far-reaching shake-up intended to purge the White House staff of leakers and aides viewed as not sufficiently loyal to his cause.
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Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE announced a government-wide crackdown on leakers on Friday, including a review of Justice Department policies on subpoenas for media outlets that publish such sensitive information.
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Former GOP congressman Jason ChaffetzJason ChaffetzHouse Oversight panel demands DeVos turn over personal email records The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by JUUL Labs - Trump attack on progressive Dems draws sharp rebuke GOP senators decline to criticize Acosta after new Epstein charges MORE slammed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Monday, saying he has "absolutely zero credibility" on going after leakers.
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If you are a developer though, you can create your own script or tool that detects zero-width characters (and even other deceiving techniques such as swapping the letter "a" with its Cyrillic counterpart "а"), according to both Ross and Zach Aysan, a data scientist and cyber security consultant who warned about the dangers of this technique to identify leaks and leakers in December of last year.
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Oh, "The New York Times" is nobody friendlier, and as "The Wall Street Journal&aposs" Kimberley Strassel pointed out, remember, she broke this story last Friday, pointing out these leakers are trying to literally get a head of Devin Nunes of the House Intel Committee and Congress so they can make all of this sound, well, it&aposs not that bad, we knew about this.
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But while Mr. Trump puts the blame on leakers for his administration's rough start, it has not helped that the White House has been distracted by internecine skirmishes, partly dictated by lingering tensions between long-serving advisers and aides to the Republican National Committee, who came to work for the president after he tapped the committee's chairman, Reince Priebus, as his chief of staff.
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There are the leakers who will forensically examine your website for any prematurely uploaded marketing assets; there are the carrier partners that will want test units for weeks or months in advance; there are the reviewers and influencers you'll want to give an early look at the product; and there are the retailers that will sometimes put phones on shelves before they are official (as happened with the Huawei P20 Lite).
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You Don't Need to Go to the Dark Web to Find Hateful Conspiracy Theories - The New York Times Jim Rutenberg notes that the hyper-partisan rhetoric that I so often write about here also extends to works paid for by major publishers, media companies and theater chains: You can see this kind of thing in the pages of "Liars, Leakers and Liberals" by the Fox News opinion host Jeanine Pirro.
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While the notion of a national security reporter meeting with a senior CIA official is obviously not unusual—such transactions are in the reporter's job description, and Sanger's book acknowledges that he withheld information at the request of government officials—the extent of Sanger's collaboration with Morell and the fact that the men apparently discussed sensitive information is noteworthy in light of the Obama administration's unprecedented campaign against government leakers.
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On Wednesday, after telling the New Yorker that he believed Priebus had leaked information about him to the press, Scaramucci tagged his colleague in a now-deleted tweet: On Thursday morning, Scaramucci denied that he was openly threatening Priebus with an FBI investigation for supposedly leaking, instead claiming it was "public notice to all leakers that all s[enio]r Admin officials are helping to end public leaks".
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Chaffetz joining Trump and Nunes in asking the leakers of Flynn intel to be investigated (and not, say, Flynn or Trump) …but also Trump himself, who announced Thursday at the same press conference that he "called the Justice Department to look into the leaks…criminal leaks," creating the impression, as The Washington Post's Greg Sargent notes, that his administration will sic federal law enforcement authorities on his political enemies.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE blasted so-called White House "leakers" as "traitors" and vowed to hunt them down, even as he denied the West Wing has a problem with leaks.
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Percentage of Americans who say the relationship between Trump and the media is "unhealthy" Percentage of Americans who say the tensions are "getting in the way" of their access to important political news Particularly troubling is the fact that Trump's threats against leakers have already led the Justice Department to open three times as many leak investigations as were underway during Barack Obama's final three years in office.
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The enemies of unfettered journalism in the United States these days include prosecutors crying "national security" in hot pursuit of leakers; a presidential candidate who vows, if elected, to "open up" the libel laws so that when journalists offend "we can sue them and win lots of money"; and, in one bizarre case, a vengeful Silicon Valley billionaire bankrolling lawsuits aimed at driving an impertinent website out of business.
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White House counselor Kellyanne ConwayKellyanne Elizabeth ConwayThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump searches for backstops amid recession worries Florida first lady to miss Women for Trump event due to planned execution Trump adopts familiar mantra on possible recession: fake news MORE lamented the problem this week during a breakfast with reporters in Washington while also claiming that the West Wing has made strides in rooting out so-called leakers.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE on Monday morning called Schiff "one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington," and accused him of sharing confidential information, something the White House has previously suggested.
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"It has been my view given that she went to trial, that due process was carried out, that she took responsibility for her crime, that the sentence that she received was very disproportionate relative to what other leakers had received and that she had served a significant amount of time, that it made sense to commute and not pardon her sentence," Obama said Wednesday during his last press conference as president.
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Tim KaineTimothy (Tim) Michael KaineA lesson of the Trump, Tlaib, Omar, Netanyahu affair Warren's pledge to avoid first nuclear strike sparks intense pushback Almost three-quarters say minimum age to buy tobacco should be 21: Gallup MORE (D-Va.) said Monday that leakers have to "suffer the consequences" of the law, even as he said Americans also deserve to know about Russia's involvement in the 2016 presidential election.
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He also caught blowback over an interview he gave to The New Yorker days before he was fired, in which he launched a profanity-laced tirade attacking then-chief of staff Reince PriebusReinhold (Reince) Richard PriebusTrump blasts Scaramucci as 'incapable' Trump taps Sean Spicer to join Naval Academy board of visitors Trump's no racist — he's an equal opportunity offender MORE, White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon and alleged leakers in the West Wing.
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The organization that former FBI director James ComeyJames Brien Comey6900 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2628 Barr predicts progressive prosecutors will lead to 'more crime, more victims' James Comey shows our criminal justice system works as intended MORE presided over was filled with leakers grabbing free sports tickets, a high official whose wife received massive Democratic political donations, and anti-Trump animus that carried over into the Russia investigation.
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If DoJ media source threat is real (I assume it's not; just a show presser to please WH) then I look forward to ignoring that subpoena Todd's declaration comes after Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE announced on Friday a government-wide crackdown on leakers.
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But in a presidency pocked with the less-than-regal vocabulary of this Washington moment — tweets about witch hunts and hoaxes, liars and leakers — the document is also striking for its window into the singular verbal tics and strategic instincts of the executive speaker: part flattery-laden banter ("Your economy is going to get better and better I predict"), part foreboding ambiguity ("I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation").
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WE'RE GONNA WORK ON THIS 'KEEPING A SECRET' THING: Via The Hill's Jonathan Easley, Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE on Friday announced a government-wide crackdown on leakers, which will include a review of the Justice Department's policies on subpoenas for media outlets that publish sensitive information.
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They're not Cox's replacement, Leon Jaworski, and his team of lawyers who carried out the prosecution, not U.S. District Judge John Sirica and his twelve grand jury members who voted unanimously to force Nixon to hand over nine of his secret tape recordings, not the countless "leakers" (aside from Deep Throat) who filled newspaper columns with insider information, and not Frank Wills, the Watergate security guard who originally found the duct tape left by the burglars on the door of the Democrats' office.
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The Mueller report is further proof that Trump has been as dishonest and ridiculous in the White House as he was on the campaign trail, further proof that his administration is filled with leakers, liars and people trying to protect their country from their boss and their boss from himself, further proof that our president postures as a strongman, yet is unable to master his own White House, further proof that left to his own devices Trump would constantly blunder into impeachable offenses.
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Trump on Friday morning tweeted that "the FBI is totally unable to stop the national security 'leakers' that have permeated our government for a long time" and said leaks of classified information "could have a devastating effect on US." But in pushing back on CNN's reporting Friday morning, two senior administration officials said Priebus had asked top FBI officials to brief reporters on background, or anonymously, after the FBI refused requests to publicly knock down the reports of contacts between Trump advisers and Russians known to US intelligence.
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You could write off the whole affair as bureaucratic bungling, if it did not fit a broader pattern during Mr. Obama's two terms — the criminal investigations into government leakers and whistle-blowers by his Justice Department; related incidents of snooping into reporters' phone records and emails; and a more general press strategy that frequently puts the president in front of opinion writers and non-journalist media personalities but rarely provides formal interviews to the reporters who cover him daily, many of whom work for traditional newspapers and wire services.
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I'm just not sure, in the absence of sweeping policy consequences, that his sleazy, sordid norm busting is categorically worse than, say, the way that both the Bush and the Obama White House changed norms about going after reporters and leakers, or the norm shifting after 9/11 that led to torture briefly being practiced by the C.I.A., or the norm shifting that gave us a disastrous Libya intervention that Congress never even voted on ever … let alone President Obama's various norm-stretching power grabs on immigration, climate-change regulations and more.
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: WSJ: Tech companies scrambling after WikiLeaks trove Airbnb turns a profit, raises $1 billion, Axios reports China to US: Stop hacking us Bloomberg: Facebook comes after Snapchat again Pentagon hires former lobbyist for Peter Thiel's company FBI still investigating computer link between Trump Organization, Russian bank: report Ex-Trump adviser: My phone was possibly tapped GOP senator questions whether DOJ 'aggressively' pursuing WikiLeaks head Republican: US is 'too easy' on leakers Health industry plays catch-up on cybersecurity ACLU challenges warrant to search Facebook page of Dakota Access opponents View the discussion thread.
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Charles GrassleyCharles (Chuck) Ernest GrassleyGOP senators call for Barr to release full results of Epstein investigation Trump health official: Controversial drug pricing move is 'top priority' Environmental advocates should take another look at biofuels MORE (R-Iowa) and Ron WydenRonald (Ron) Lee WydenWyden blasts FEC Republicans for blocking probe into NRA over possible Russia donations Wyden calls for end to political ad targeting on Facebook, Google Ex-CIA chief worries campaigns falling short on cybersecurity MORE (D-Ore.) that enhanced monitoring of Intelligence Community workers was designed to find leakers and insider threats, and was not intended to thwart lawful whistleblowing.
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Sen. Chuck GrassleyCharles (Chuck) Ernest GrassleyGOP senators call for Barr to release full results of Epstein investigation Trump health official: Controversial drug pricing move is 'top priority' Environmental advocates should take another look at biofuels MORE (R-Iowa) asked Monday how President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE maintains such an active Twitter account, jokingly saying he'd like "leakers" at the White House to give him some insights.
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Trump had a better idea: As Axios reported weeks ago, Team of Vipers contains a passage in which Sims sits down for a clandestine talk with the president to create naughty and nice lists of staffers (in Sharpie, of course) in an attempt to root out leakers: In one of the more damning excerpts of the book, published in Vanity Fair, Sims spends a great number of words dissecting the ruthlessness and tenacity of Conway, one of the president's longest-serving aides: Sims describes how, while working on Conway's laptop to compose a statement for her repudiating allegations that she talked trash about Trump, he caught evidence she was a frequent leaker on her still-open iMessage: As of Tuesday afternoon, the book was number six on Amazon's list of best-sellers.
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Week 29, in one sentence: Donald Trump headed to New Jersey for a "working vacation" where he repeatedly threatened North Korea and crashed a wedding; failed to address the bombing of a Minnesota mosque; made some progress in his eternal battle against leakers when Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced plans to review policies protecting journalists; called out a Democrat senator over his lie about going to Vietnam, leaving out his own four deferments, including one because his feet hurt; went after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for neither repealing nor replacing Obamacare; played golf, at least according to social media; at least started the paperwork to declare the opioid epidemic a "national emergency"; thanked Putin for expelling 755 U.S. diplomats from Russia; and spooked the world and financial markets when he said military solutions were "locked and loaded" against North Korea.
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