U.S. law enforcement and intelligence officials have leaked extremely sensitive information about a top secret source three times in the last week while claiming that confidentially sharing information about the source with congressional investigators could greatly impact U.S. national security and potentially risk the source's life.
The officials have leaked specific information that could directly identify the source on three separate occasions to reporters at the Washington Post and New York Times.
The May 8 article, the one that claimed Congress couldn't be given any information related to its subpoena, published leaks from government officials that the U.S government had a secret source who had helped the special counsel's Russia investigation.
The article said the source was a U.S. citizen who had worked with the CIA and the FBI. In a May 16 article in The New York Times, government officials leak more information about the use of informants to spy on the Trump campaign.
In the most recent article published last night, the Washington Post's sources reiterate their claim that talking about the source is extremely dangerous, saying "Leaders warn that publicly identifying the confidential source would put lives in danger and imperil other operations. The stakes are so high that the FBI has been working over the past two weeks to mitigate the potential damage if the source's identity is revealed, according to several people familiar with the matter."
All public information about the source and his or her work on behalf of the government has come directly from leaks attributed to government law enforcement and intelligence officials.
The only exposure of the source at this point has happened due to leaks by government sources in the Washington Post and New York Times about the use of a government informant to spy on the Trump campaign.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/05/18/doj-frets-about-source-outing-while-deliberately-outing-source/
The officials have leaked specific information that could directly identify the source on three separate occasions to reporters at the Washington Post and New York Times.
The May 8 article, the one that claimed Congress couldn't be given any information related to its subpoena, published leaks from government officials that the U.S government had a secret source who had helped the special counsel's Russia investigation.
The article said the source was a U.S. citizen who had worked with the CIA and the FBI. In a May 16 article in The New York Times, government officials leak more information about the use of informants to spy on the Trump campaign.
In the most recent article published last night, the Washington Post's sources reiterate their claim that talking about the source is extremely dangerous, saying "Leaders warn that publicly identifying the confidential source would put lives in danger and imperil other operations. The stakes are so high that the FBI has been working over the past two weeks to mitigate the potential damage if the source's identity is revealed, according to several people familiar with the matter."
All public information about the source and his or her work on behalf of the government has come directly from leaks attributed to government law enforcement and intelligence officials.
The only exposure of the source at this point has happened due to leaks by government sources in the Washington Post and New York Times about the use of a government informant to spy on the Trump campaign.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/05/18/doj-frets-about-source-outing-while-deliberately-outing-source/
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