Looks like there finally may be some accountability coming — the Trump team is cleaning house.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has made Justice Department referrals against two individuals whom she’s accused of leaking classified material to the press, as the Trump administration pursues a crackdown across agencies.
Gabbard, 44, alleged that one of the individuals handed classified material to the Washington Post and the other gave sensitive information to the New York Times.
“A third criminal referral is on its way,” Gabbard said in an announcement Wednesday, accusing the third alleged leaker of illegally sending material to the Washington Post.
They obviously have to take a hard look at the intelligence community, given what's gone on in the past, to see who can be trusted.
Gabbard said:
"Politicization of our intelligence and leaking classified information puts our nation’s security at risk and must end. Those who leak classified information will be found and held accountable to the fullest extent of the law."
According to Gabbard, these "deep-state" people "leaked classified information for partisan political purposes to undermine POTUS’ agenda."
She said she looked forward to working with the DOJ and the FBI "to investigate, terminate and prosecute" these people.
It's also not just the DNI.
Top brass in the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security have similarly opened internal probes into leaking, with some officials musing about using polygraph detectors to identify leakers.
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Unfortunately, we've seen the intel community compromised and politicized under prior administrations. So the Trump team needs to make sure that they clean that out, if they are going to proceed forward without getting undercut at every step, and to make sure that the focus is on what it's supposed to be on: protecting the United States. Sounds like Gabbard is taking this responsibility appropriately seriously.
A DNI official said they were not done.
"We are aggressively investigating other leaks and will pursue further criminal referrals as warranted," the official told Fox News Digital. "Any intelligence community bureaucrat who is considering leaking to the media should take this as a warning."
The official added that the Trump administration "will identify leakers and leakers will face legal consequences."
Gabbard formed a Director's Initiative Group (DIG), which has been looking into the weaponization of the intelligence community. So grab the popcorn, they likely have more announcements to come.
They have a lot to root out if they are actually going to hold people accountable; it's needed cleaning up for a long time. If they're leaking, they need to be gone. And if they're working against the policy goals of the administration, same thing. People need to be charged if they are going to be able to get anything done and ultimately changed.
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