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-- 2017 --
January 26: Trump doesn't seem
like the type who will enjoy his advisors talking about him like he's a child
to the New York Times for long.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/824597792299581440 …
January 27: White House leaks cast the
President as a clueless child
This cannot sit well with Donald Trump. Or can it?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-white-house-leaks-cast-president-clueless-child-a7548686.html
January 31: Mysterious Twitter account
allegedly leaking Trump White House secrets deleted
A controversial Twitter account allegedly run by an anonymous Republican White
House staffer to document what was happening within President Donald Trump's
administration mysteriously disappeared Wednesday night just hours after it went
viral.
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/alleged-white-house-whistleblower-deleted/
February 2:
‘Trying to nail down who the leakers are is like trying to count the
cockroaches under the couch,’ one longtime Trump adviser says.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-aides-distrust-confusion-leaks-234550
February 3: The White House is looking into
how embarrassing details of President Donald Trump’s recent tense phone
conversations with his counterparts in Australia and Mexico were leaked to news
organizations, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said on Fox News Channel.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-leaks-idUSKBN15I321
February 3: Trump White House Leaks: Done On
Purpose Or Lack Of Loyalty?
https://www.wnyc.org/story/trump-white-house-leaks-done-on-purpose-or-lack-of-loyalty/
February 8: A Complete List of Embarrassing
White House Leaks About Donald Trump
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/02/a-complete-list-of-embarrassing-white-house-leaks.html
February 9: White House Probing Leaks After
Details of Call Between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin Released
Trump reportedly denounced a 2010 treaty limiting U.S. and Russian nuclear
warheads, calling it a bad deal for the U.S.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-probing-leaks-after-details-of-call-between-donald-trump-and-vladimir-putin-released-1486700251
February 11: White House leaks raise
concerns about Trump’s nuclear arms policy
https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-02-11/white-house-leaks-raise-concerns-about-trump-s-nuclear-arms-policy
February 15: The Law of Leaks
On the enforcement side, the administration might have a range of criminal
statutes and enforceable legal obligations to use (or threaten to use) to stem
the tide of leaks.
Beyond threat of criminal sanction, courts have enforced government
nondisclosure agreements aimed at protecting sensitive information.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/law-leaks
February 16: Trump Defends
Mike Flynn, Blasts ‘Fake News’ and Leaks
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-defends-mike-flynn-blasts-fake-news-administration-leaks-n721906
February 16:
White House Leaks Aren't Un-American, They're Just Easier Now
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/leaks-totally-american-theyre-just-easier-now/
February 20: Are leaks about Russia contacts
'illegal,' as Trump says?
There isn’t a single law that criminalizes all leaks of classified or privileged
government information to the media. However, there are a few relevant federal
laws that apply to the kind of leaks that are of most concern to the Trump White
House — those that involve details of ongoing federal intelligence
investigations.
"The bottom line is that it is quite likely that eager prosecutors could find a
statute to cover most leaks relating to intelligence activities," said
Mary-Rose
Papandrea, an expert in national security leaks and law professor at the
University of North Carolina.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/feb/20/russia-stories-stem-illegal-leaks-trump-says/
February 27: Spicer cracks down on White House leaks
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/26/politics/spicer-leaks-crackdown/index.html
February 28:
Though President Donald Trump has insisted that his administration is a "fine-tuned
machine," he just can't seem to stop the leaks that have plagued the
opening weeks of his term — much to his
chagrin.
In tweets that also managed to attack
U.S. intelligence and the "failing" media,
Trump has decried leaks as "illegal" and ordered the FBI to "FIND NOW."
https://mic.com/articles/169864/white-house-leaks-latest-on-trump-administration-s-attempts-to-crackdown-on-leakers#.SI3cyHen6
March 2:
The Two-Headed Monster of White House Leaks
Leaking privileged information helps keep the powerful accountable, but it also
undermines the president's ability to do his job.
https://reason.com/archives/2017/03/02/trump-leaks-two-headed-monster
March 3:
Trump White House Shopping for Technology to Plug Leaks
Not content to just search staffers’ phones,
officials are considering high-end security software for White House networks.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/03/trump-white-house-shopping-for-technology-to-plug-leaks/
May 15: The New York Daily News previewed
its Wednesday cover online, which calls President Trump “leaker of the free
world.”
“Trump spilled ISIS secrets to Russia,”
it says below a picture of Trump meeting with Russian Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at the White House,
referring to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/333537-ny-daily-news-trump-is-leaker-of-the-free-world
May 16:
President Donald Trump insisted Tuesday he had the right to share information
with Russia related to terrorism and other issues, his first public response to
the revelation he disclosed classified information at an Oval Office meeting
last week. ... "As President I wanted to share with Russia (at an openly
scheduled W.H. meeting) which I have the absolute right to do, facts pertaining
to terrorism and airline flight safety, Humanitarian reasons, plus I want Russia
to greatly step up their fight against ISIS & terrorism," he tweeted. ... Two
former officials knowledgeable of the situation confirmed to CNN that the main
points of the Post story are accurate: The President shared classified
information with the Russian foreign minister.
... The ability to protect
[the] source whoever he is, wherever he is has been seriously undermined ...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/16/politics/donald-trump-russia-right/?iid=ob_lockedrail_longstory_pool
May 16: Idaho Sen. James
Risch came to President Donald Trump's defense on Tuesday, a day after the
Washington Post reported the President had shared classified information with
Russian officials.
Risch, a Republican on both the Senate foreign relations and intelligence
committees, said on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer" that if the
report was accurate, Trump was not in the wrong --
the Washington Post's sources were.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/16/politics/james-risch-donald-trump-classified-info/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
May 16: After reports surfaced Monday that
Trump had revealed highly classified intelligence to Russian officials,
McMaster said outside
the White House that the "story that came out tonight, as reported, is false."
On
Tuesday, McMaster said Trump did not jeopardize intelligence assets by revealing
highly sensitive information to the Russians, adding that Trump did not know
where the intel came from.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/333663-trump-called-mcmaster-a-pain-thinks-he-talks-too-much-report
May 17: Russian President Vladimir
Putin has offered to provide a transcript of a
controversial Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
... Speaking at a
press conference in Sochi, Russia, Putin dismissed allegations that Trump had
shared top-secret security intelligence with Russian diplomats as "political
schizophrenia."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/17/politics/russia-us-trump-lavrov-intel/index.html
May 22: Trump's Right About One Thing: White
House Leaks Are a Story
If the Russia scandal doesn't derail Trump's presidency, a lack of loyalty
might.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43gp83/trumps-right-about-one-thing-white-house-leaks-are-a-story
May 28: In tweets, Trump says stories based
on White House leaks are fabricated
http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-in-tweets-trump-says-stories-based-on-1495978815-htmlstory.html
May 30: National Security Experts Divided In
Response To White House Leaks
http://wuwm.com/post/national-security-experts-divided-response-white-house-leaks#stream/0
June 1: The Dishonorable White House Leaks
The American way is to use checks and balances, not to hide behind anonymity
while muckraking in the media.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-dishonorable-white-house-leaks/
June 7: The Trump administration scored a
victory this week when it arrested a 25-year-old NSA contractor, Reality Winner,
and
charged her with espionage for allegedly leaking an NSA report showing
Russian interference in the election.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/07/politics/russia-hearing-dan-coats/index.html
July 22: "A new INTELLIGENCE LEAK from the
Amazon Washington Post, this time against A.G. Jeff Sessions," Trump wrote.
"These illegal leaks, like Comey's, must stop!"
Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said in a statement to CNN
that she could not comment on the Post's report Friday.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/22/politics/trump-tweets-pardon-powers/index.html
July 26: In a recent interview with the
Wall Street Journal, Mr Trump said his
Justice
Department should start cracking down on federal employees who leak to the
media – except those who have positive things to say about him.
“Number one, they should go after the leakers in intelligence,” he said. “I
don’t mean the White House stuff where they’re fighting over who loves me the
most, OK? It’s just stupid people doing that.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-wall-street-journal-white-house-staff-fighting-over-who-loves-him-the-most-a7861776.html
July 27:
How Trump’s White House
Is Upping Its War on Leaks
So far, the Trump administration has brought
charges against one alleged leaker, a National Security Agency contractor
arrested on June 5 for passing classified information to a media organization.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-27/how-trump-white-house-is-upping-its-war-on-leaks-quicktake-q-a
August 2: White House Leaks Suggest Trump's
Own Team Is Alarmed By His Conduct
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/2017/02/08/white-house-leaks-suggest-trumps-own-team-is-alarmed-by-his-con_a_21709559/
August 4: According to a transcript [leaked
about Trump phone calls] published Thursday by The Washington Post, President
Donald Trump
boasted about his election victory, pressured his Mexican counterpart to
remain quiet about a border wall and called New Hampshire a "drug-infested den"
in a phone call with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/04/politics/leaking-donald-trump-democrats/index.html
August 4: The US attorney general has said
four people have been charged over leaks as the Trump administration launched a
crackdown on embarrassing disclosures.
Jeff Sessions said the suspects were accused of divulging classified material or
concealed contacts with foreign intelligence officers.
... the attorney general said no government could be effective when its leaders
could not talk freely in confidence with foreign leaders.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40829559
August 4: [Senator Ben] Cardin said he was
not surprised to hear that Trump was not as aggressive on the border issue in
private as he was when talking to his base.
"I think we all understand it," he said. "We know Mr. Trump is very sensitive
about the wall. We know he has no support in the Congress to build a wall on our
total border. It's not a surprise to hear what's in it. But that information
should not have been leaked."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/04/politics/leaking-donald-trump-democrats/index.html
August 13: Trump Reportedly Suspects Steve
Bannon of White House Leaks
West Wing sources say Trump is 'irritated' with Bannon, and suspicion of leaking
puts the chief strategist's job in jeopardy
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/trump-suspects-steve-bannon-of-white-house-leaks-1.5442499
September 14: Trump White House’s Latest
Strategy to Deal With Leaks… Has Been Leaked
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-white-houses-newest-strategy-deal-leaks-has-been-leaked-664756
September 21: Agencies Begin White
House-Mandated Training for Every Fed on Consequences of Leaks
The governmentwide campaign against “the unauthorized disclosure of unauthorized
information,” as well as “controlled unclassified information,” or CUI, came at
the direction of the White House. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster last
week sent a directive—subsequently
obtained by several media outlets—to all federal agencies demanding they
train their employees on the “serious consequences” of improper leaks of such
information by Sept. 22.
https://www.govexec.com/management/2017/09/white-house-demands-training-every-federal-employee-consequences-leaks/141197/
October 10: The latest White House leaks
showcase Trump's art of the tantrum
Most people suffer the consequences of their actions. So far, Trump has not.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/10/16452882/trump-john-kelly
-- 2018 --
January 4: White House Bans Personal Cell
Phones for Guests and Staff Amid Flurry of Leaks
https://www.insideedition.com/white-house-bans-personal-cell-phones-guests-and-staff-amid-flurry-leaks-39513
January 11: Back [in 1971] the [Supreme]
Court’s liberal majority espoused the right to publish leaks, especially those
in the public interest. Justice Hugo L. Black’s
opinion insisted that “the press must be left free to publish news, whatever
the source, without censorship, injunctions, or prior restraints” while Justice
William O. Douglas said, “Secrecy in government is fundamentally
anti-democratic.”
A lot has changed since the Nixon Administration. Journalism is no longer
ascendant. A series of court cases has affirmed the government’s right to keep
secrets while limiting when reporters can legally keep sources confidential.
http://time.com/5098422/in-praise-of-leaks/
March 20: No, the President Can’t Legally
Gag White House Staffers
It’s no surprise that the Trump administration would like to find a way to stop
the
flood
of leaks coming from the White House. But avoiding embarrassment is no
grounds for government censorship, and the latest leak-plugging effort we’ve
heard of violates the First Amendment.
https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/employee-speech-and-whistleblowers/no-president-cant-legally-gag-white-house
March 21: White House issues threat over
leaked Trump briefing papers
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/white-house-issues-threat-over-leaked-trump-briefing-papers/
March 23: John Bolton: White House Leaks Put
Americans In Jeopardy
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/03/23/john_bolton_white_house_leaks_put_americans_in_jeopardy.html
March 26: Michael Gerson: White House leak
denotes desperation ... As a former presidential staffer, I have little patience
for leaks. Any president deserves and requires the ability to conduct policy
discussions in private. Leaks are an abuse of power and position, generally by
people who are unelected and self-serving.
But motivations matter, and the taxonomy of White House leakage is a worthy
study. A surprising number of leaks are the result of simple vanity — the desire
to appear in the know. Other leakers are trying to embarrass or sabotage a
rival. Some leaks result from deviousness — the attempt to box the president in
on a policy matter.
The exposure of a White House briefing document telling President Trump "DO NOT
CONGRATULATE" Russia's Vladimir Putin on his sham election victory — leaked
after Trump congratulated Putin on his sham election victory — falls into a
different category. It seems to have been motivated by desperation.
https://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/White-House-leak-denotes-desperation-12780356.php
April 3: President Trump Is Still Posing as
Anonymous Source to Leak Favorable News to Reporters
Ronald Kessler claims in his new book, The
Trump White House: Changing the Rules of the Game, that Trump has a
number of journalists he frequently contacts, and leaks to on the condition that
he be identified only as one of his own unnamed staff members.
http://people.com/politics/president-trump-poses-anonymous-source-book-claims/
April 12: Former White House press secretary
Jay Carney on damage of government leaks
https://news.yale.edu/2018/04/12/former-white-house-press-secretary-damage-government-leaks
May 13: White House leakers leak about
leaking
https://www.axios.com/trump-white-house-leakers-leak-about-leaking-dae05b8e-e792-41a7-bb74-c2756b542cd0.html
May 13: A former National Security Council
official now slated to work for Attorney General Jeff Sessions explored ways to
surreptitiously monitor the communications of White House staff for leaks or
perceived political disloyalty to Donald Trump, according to three former Trump
NSC officials familiar with the effort.
Ezra Cohen-Watnick, whom former national security adviser Michael Flynn
brought onto the NSC as senior director for intelligence, sought technical
solutions in early 2017 for collecting and analyzing phone and other data on
White House colleagues for interactions with reporters. He portrayed his desired
leak hunt as an “insider threat” detection effort, according to the
ex-officials. Those who heard of it presumed it would focus on NSC staffers held
over from the Obama administration.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-aides-plan-to-stop-leaks-spy-on-his-co-workers
May 14: Trump Denies White House Has a
Leaking Problem
President Trump
tweets:...
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. With that being said, leakers are traitors and cowards, and we will
find out who they are!
https://politicalwire.com/2018/05/14/trump-denies-white-house-has-a-leaking-problem/
May 14: The ‘deep state’ is in Trump’s own
White House
Leaks to the media have plagued Trump's presidency since Day One, and a new
report on leakers' motives opens a window into the extent of the subterfuge.
May 14: On Sunday Axios asked some of the
administration’s most prolific leakers why they do it. One current White House
official said, “It’s about ‘personal vendettas’ and keeping accurate records of
the atmosphere in the White House.”
But [Karl Rove, a former White House chief of staff,] said it’s because
President Trump gives them a “license” to leak to journalists.
“Who’s the biggest leaker in the White House?” he asked. “It’s the president of
the United States who calls up media figures all of the time and tells them
stuff that he shouldn’t be telling them.”
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/karl-rove-names-main-source-of-white-house-leaks
May 15:
The president's staffers even leaked about the meeting addressing the leaks
May 15: Why are there so many -- and so many
damaging -- leaks coming from the White House?
The answer to that question is very, very simple. And that answer is: Donald
John Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/15/politics/trump-leaks/
May 15: An Anti-Leak Squad Patrols the White
House in Search of Staffers’ Secret Phones
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/05/anti-leak-squad-patrols-white-house-seizing-staffs-phones.html
May 15: How Game Theory Explains the Leaks
in the Trump White House
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-game-theory-explains-the-leaks-in-the-trump-white-house
May 15: How Bill Clinton Stopped White House
Leaks
And why Trump can't.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/bill-clinton-trump-white-house-leaks/560414/
May 17: House majority leader to colleagues
in 2016: ‘I think Putin pays’ Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.bc4e4fad376e
May 16: White House says 'couple of bad
actors' responsible for latest leaks
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-house-couple-bad-actors-responsible-latest-leaks/story?id=55207203
May 18: White House threatens firings after
leak of John McCain comment
A West Wing aide's morbid remark about gravely ill Sen. John McCain has not
yielded widespread White House soul-searching. Instead, it has led to a push to
fire those responsible for leaking that story and others that have bedeviled
President Trump's administration.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-threatens-firings-after-leak-of-john-mccain-comment/
May 18: Responding to leaks, White House
limits number of staff in daily meeting
https://www.myajc.com/news/responding-leaks-white-house-limits-number-staff-daily-meeting/7gQ76BisxplPfzgAZrHOIL/
June 9: Leaks continue to plague Trump White
House despite crackdown
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/391430-leaks-plague-trump-white-house-with-no-end-in-sight
August 30: Trump’s White House intern
programme is incredibly white, leaked photo reveals
The photo, which was not released by the White House, contrasts sharply with the
diversity of Obama-era internship intakes
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2161924/trumps-white-house-intern-programme-incredibly-white
August 31:
The president had told Bloomberg News off the record that any trade with Canada
would be 'totally on our terms.'
September 6: Trump
insists all’s calm at White House after bombshell op-ed
The president spoke at a rally in Montana, leaving behind a West Wing seized by
paranoia and finger-pointing.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/06/trump-white-house-aids-leaks-809481
September 6: The six biggest Trump leaks
From Michael Flynn to 's**thole countries', Donald Trump's presidency has been
marred by insider press leaks.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/09/biggest-trump-leaks-180906193313639.html
September 6: Trump's nightmare: "The snakes
are everywhere"
President Trump is not just seething about
Bob Woodward.
He’s deeply suspicious of much of the government he oversees —
from the hordes of folks inside agencies, right up to some of the senior-most
political appointees and even some handpicked aides inside his own White House,
officials tell Axios.
The big picture: He should be paranoid. In the hours after the New York
Times published the anonymous
Op-Ed from "a senior official in the Trump administration" trashing the
president ("I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration"), two
senior administration officials reached out to Axios to say the author stole the
words right out of their mouths.
https://www.axios.com/trump-administration-white-house-leaks-a5a82efa-d6c8-4209-b616-80f1422eb36c.html
September 7: Leak Hunting: the President and
His Insider Critics
Things to know about leak investigations.
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2018-09-07/on-trump-and-the-hunt-for-leaks-after-book-unsigned-essay
September 7: A Look at Trump and the Hunt
for Leaks
https://www.voanews.com/a/a-look-at-trump-and-the-hunt-for-leaks/4562116.html
December 10: Ethics watchdog sues FBI over
leak to Giuliani
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
said in its announcement of
the lawsuit that information was leaked to Giuliani in October 2016, during
the final weeks of the presidential campaign, giving the former New York mayor a
tip that then-FBI Director
James Comey was going to reopen the investigation into
Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she served as
secretary of State.
Giuliani admitted to receiving a leak on the investigation, saying on Fox News,
“Did I hear about it? You’re darn right I heard about it. And I can’t even
repeat the language that I heard.”
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/420595-ethics-watchdog-sues-fbi-over-leaks-to-giuliani
December 10: Conspiracy theorist Jerome
Corsi sues special counsel Robert Mueller for $350 million, claims illegal
leaks, rights violation
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/10/roger-stone-linked-jerome-corsi-sues-special-counsel-robert-mueller-for-350-million.html
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