ATTORNEY GENERAL/JEFF SESSIONS/LEAKS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Friday [8-4-17] that the Justice Department was now pursuing three times as many leak investigations as the previous administration, a significant devotion of law enforcement resources to hunt down the sources of unauthorized disclosures of information that have plagued the Trump administration.
Mr. Sessions vowed that the Justice Department would not hesitate to bring criminal charges against people who had leaked classified information. He also announced that the F.B.I. had created a new counterintelligence unit to manage these cases.
‘I strongly agree with the president and condemn in the strongest terms the staggering number of leaks,’ he said. The announcement by Mr. Sessions comes 10 days after President Trump publicly accused him of being ‘very’ weak on pursuing these investigations in a post on Twitter.
The Sessions news conference came against the backdrop of repeated pressure by Mr. Trump, in public and in private, for the Justice Department and the F.B.I. to hunt down people inside the government who have been telling reporters what was happening behind closed doors.”
-Charlie Savage and Eileen Sullivan, “Leak Investigations Triple Under Trump, Sessions Says,” The New York Times online, Aug. 4, 2017 08:42am