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Embattled Sessions To Step Up Fight Against Intel Leakers
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions is reportedly preparing to announce a series of criminal investigations related to repeated disclosures of sensitive information to the press.
The Washington Post reports that the Department of Justice will publicize criminal leak investigations related to the unauthorized exposure of classified information to reporters in the coming days. It is not yet clear that these investigations are related to leaks pertaining to the ongoing investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
The report comes as the relationship between the president and the attorney general has reached its greatest point of strain. President Donald Trump has disparaged Sessions on Twitter in early morning tweets every day this week.
So why aren't the Committees and investigators, and of course our beleaguered A.G., looking into Crooked Hillarys crimes & Russia relations?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 24, 2017
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes (where are E-mails & DNC server) & Intel leakers!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 25, 2017
Why didn't A.G. Sessions replace Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, a Comey friend who was in charge of Clinton investigation but got….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2017
ABC News reports that Sessions’ chief of staff, Jody Hunt, has informed White House chief of staff Reince Priebus that the attorney general has no plans to resign. The post is the culmination of Sessions’ professional career, which began as a federal prosecutor and continued in Congress as a stalwart of law-and-order politics.
A Department of Justice spokesman has not yet responded to TheDCNF’s inquiries.
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